IRC

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The Internet Relay Chat is a well known means of communication for FOSS developers around the globe. We intend to use the channel ##lugmanipal on Freenode for our discussions. This page's purpose is to declare the channel and provide a collection of links as guides to its usage.

Contents 1 IRC : what is it ? 2 IRC Command guides 3 Clients 4 Dos and Don'ts

IRC : what is it ?

wikipedia

IRC Command guides

IRC command guide(s) ;)

Clients

irssi : Command line client

irssi Documentation

Fedora :

yum install irssi

Please add install instructions for other distros here

Konversation a part of KDE

xchat A chat client for the X Server

Fedora :

yum install xchat gnome-xchat (gnome-xchat is a frontend for gnome)

Please add install instructions for other distros here

Add more clients

Dos and Don'ts

IRC chatting etiquette