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Empathy vs Leafnode

A side-by-side look at Empathy and Leafnode. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

chatmessagingvoipxmppirc
Leafnode

Leafnode

News & Books

Leafnode is an open source news server designed for querying and distributing Usenet articles over NNTP. It is lightweight, fast, and aims to preserve network resources by minimizing traffic.

usenetnntpnews-server