SILKY - An easy to use SILC client

:: General Info

:: Users

:: Developers

:: Other

:: Getting Silky

Silky is distributed as source package, as well as binary packages for various Linux distributions.

:: Release notes

:: Windows packages

Silky should work in Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It doesn't work in Windows versions 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME or CE.

Silky requires GTK to be installed. You can download them both from here:

Release Binary package gpg-signed md5 checksum
Silky 0.5.4 silky-0.5.4-win32.exe
gtk-win32-2.6.4-rc1.exe
267390c0046641f32544a1a7c5b808b3
Silky 0.5.2 silky-0.5.2-2-win32.exe
gtk-win32-2.4.13-rc1.exe


:: Linux packages

Packaged version of Silky is available directly from all the major Linux distributions' own repositories including Debian, Fedora and Gentoo.

Links to RPM packages of Silky:

Release Distribution Binary package Source package
Silky 0.5.4 Fedora 4 silky-0.5.4-1.i386.rpm
silky-0.5.4-1.x86_64.rpm
silky-0.5.4-1.ppc.rpm
silky-0.5.4-1.src.rpm
Fedora 3 silky-0.5.4-0.FC3.i386.rpm
silky-0.5.4-0.FC3.x86_64.rpm
silky-0.5.4-0.FC3.src.rpm
Silky 0.5.2 Fedora 3 silky-0.5.2-1.i386.rpm
silky-0.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm
silky-0.5.2-1.ppc.rpm
silky-0.5.2-1.src.rpm
Fedora 2 silky-0.5.2-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm silky-0.5.2-0.fdr.1.2.src.rpm
Fedora 1 silky-0.5.2-0.fdr.1.1.i386.rpm silky-0.5.2-0.fdr.1.1.src.rpm
Mandrake Cooker silky-0.5.2-1mdk.i586.rpm silky-0.5.2-1mdk.src.rpm

If your favourite distribution is missing from the list, please mail to Toni Willberg.

:: Source code

Silky should compile in Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, Windows 2000 and possibly others.

See Building Silky -page for more information.

File Description gpg-signed md5 checksum
silky-0.5.4.tar.gz Source tarball of Silky 0.5.4 ef7a583bfb612ec16b3437f56e5c72a3
silky-0.5.3.tar.gz Source tarball of Silky 0.5.3 b63cc65ab8632b400566aa7f61f5a0a4
silc-toolkit-0.9.12.tar.gz Source tarball of the SILC Toolkit (libsilc)

:: Patches

Some experimental patches are provided here for developers.

File Description Author
silky-hildon.diff Current work-in-progress patch against CVS head to add support for Maemo platform. Toni Willberg

:: Getting help

The preferred contact method is to use the mailing lists.

You may also join the silky channel in the SILCNet.

:: Bug reports

All bug reports and feature requests are welcome! Please see the list of open bugs before submitting new bug report.

If you want to discuss about a bug with the developers, please submit new bug report first and then contact the developers - preferably by using Silky and joining the silky channel in SILCNet.



:: Screenshots


Silky ported to Nokia 770
Maemo Development Environment
(Nokia 770)


The new color schema,
Fedora Core 3

The main window of Silky 0.5.1
Microsoft Windows 2000

:: Credits

The core development team:
  • Toni Willberg
  • Andrej Kacian
With contributions from:
  • Daniel Richards
  • Mika Boström
  • Patrik Weiskircher
  • Ossi Herrala
  • Joshua Steele
  • Ted Rolle
  • Juha Räsänen
  • Hanlie Pretorius
  • Patrick Kelle
  • Adam Weinberger
  • Jesús Espino García
  • Priit Laes
  • Michel Robitaille
  • Tamas SZERB
  • Michele Baldessari
  • Julie Vermeersch
  • Raphael Higino
  • Cristi Boian
  • Evgueni V. Gavrilov
  • Steve Murphy
  • Christian Rose
  • K.K. Yin

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