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Spinner is an anti-idle program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - | / - | / ... " (try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video (or your terminal's... Platforms: *nix

Crystal Mud Client project is a terminal-based MUD client with good protocol support. Crystal is an adequate MUD client. At first glance it looks like telnet, but has full line editing and scrollback, character set conversion support, Unicode support, prompt grabbing, xterm titlebar setting,... Platforms: *nix

F-IRC provides a console IRC client. F-IRC is an IRC client for the console. It supports multiple servers, scrollback, and all the basic features one can expect from an IRC client. When F-IRC is started, youll see a list of channels and servers on the right. The box around these is... Platforms: *nix

TinTin is a mud client that runs in console mode. TinTin should run on any unix/linux system (BSD, SuSe, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, to name a few) and emulators, such as Cygwin for windows. TinTin will also run on Mac OS X (OSX) 10.2 and higher. A windows port named WinTin (not to be confused... Platforms: Mac

Kmud project is a graphical MUD client for Linux and other Unix platforms. It is a useful and easy-to-use program for all people that want a nice graphical interface instead of a simple telnet for playing MUDs. It features a connection wizard/profiles, an automapper, aliases, triggers (also... Platforms: *nix

Telnet/SSH/SSH2/serial console client and terminal emulator. Its functions (like tabbed sessions, typed command history, scrollback, multiple window support, etc.) and solidly implemented emulations make it the preferred tool for people who have to access Unix shell accounts, IBM hosts or routers... Platforms: Mac

ShellInABox stands in the tradition of programs such as telnet and rlogin. These applications have long been popular with users who had access to low-performance terminal servers or workstations on their desktops, but needed shared remote access to a more powerful server. While desktop machines... Platforms: BSD Solaris

nose-progressive is a nose plugin which displays progress in a stationary progress bar, freeing the rest of the screen (as well as the scrollback buffer) for the compact display of test failures. It displays failures and errors as soon as they occur and avoids scrolling them off the screen in... Platforms: *nix