“Pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program’s look-and-feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully-configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look-and-feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.”

It’s awesome. Basically you open a terminal, enter a few commands and BAM you’ve got terminal aim. This works for me as i don’t really use anything other than aim. I believe you can incorporate irc into it as well. It’s included in the standard Ubuntu repos.

Now if i can only incorporate it into conky…

My desktop decided to eat its MBR last night, so lots of Ubuntu posts are probably on the way.