In the late 80s and early 90s, one of the most popular means of communication in the network of networks was IRC (Internet Relay Chat), as it allowed a large number of people, from anywhere on the planet, to communicate and share ideas, comments, jokes or whatever quickly through text.
With the arrival of MSN, Yahoo Messenger, XMPP (Jabber), Gtalk, Facebook ... etc, IRC gradually lost its charm, and is normally used only by Hackers, Developers, Geeks, Nerds, that is, in a general way by people related to computers.
But it is still an excellent means of group communication. Even in DesdeLinux we have our own IRC server and of course, in the repositories you can find various applications to use this type of service.
Talking about each one of them would be impossible, as they have their particularities, advantages, disadvantages ... etc. That is why I leave you a table that I found in this site, where a large number of applications of this type are collected to GNU / Linux and Unix in general.
In addition to those shown in the table, many of which are included in the repositories of most of the current distributions, there are other alternatives such as Opera(the Navigator) which has native IRC support, and chatzilla which can be used as a complement in Firefox. Or they can also use our webirc.
Also in console there are several applications that can serve us, highlighting among them IRSI, which does not stop being powerful because it is run on a terminal:
Well, you know, if you want to access our IRC, share with us, talk, joke and have a good time, don't say you have no alternatives for it 😀
Of those that I have tried, the one I like the most is XChat, because it allows me to put the bottom bar of the servers, channels, etc. (Like Win's mIRC I was so used to a few years ago.)
I used Irssi for a long time until I came across WeeChat - excellent.
If both clients were a distro, Irssi would be Slack and WeeChat Arch 😛
Irssi is ultra-lightweight, feature-packed albeit a bit harsh and with few extensions.
WeeChat instead takes where Irssi left off and becomes the best IRC client for console C http://imgur.com/LrWOA
I think the best client is Irssi, it is the most powerful and can be extended with many extensions, more than in weechat and not as mentioned above. In addition, it can also be used on servers where they do not have a graphical interface.
For my part, if I want to use a graphical application to connect, I do it from Pidgin, which although it is somewhat lax for IRC, is easy to use and I think more friendly than Xchat.
I've always used xChat, because it also came from mIRC and it's the closest thing I found. However, since I use KDE, I use Quassel, which will integrate better with the rest of the system.
I already managed to get the Xchat into a national IRC…. but no way they do it for DL
Of those that I have tried, the one I like the most is XChat, because it allows me to put the bottom bar of the servers, channels, etc. (Like Win's mIRC I was so used to a few years ago.)
A greeting!
give me the solution, I say, only if we are in the same country
I used Irssi for a long time until I came across WeeChat - excellent.
If both clients were a distro, Irssi would be Slack and WeeChat Arch 😛
Irssi is ultra-lightweight, feature-packed albeit a bit harsh and with few extensions.
WeeChat instead takes where Irssi left off and becomes the best IRC client for console C
http://imgur.com/LrWOA
+1 I use weechat because console applications are simply cool 😀
And don't forget the plugins, with WeeChat you can do practically whatever you want and with a fraction of the resources clients need for X
Missing name Weechat 🙂
Konversation, Quassel and X-Chat would be my usual choices. I will have to try Irssi at some point 🙂
BlogDrake XD IRC channel host was missing Escomposlinux
I think the best client is Irssi, it is the most powerful and can be extended with many extensions, more than in weechat and not as mentioned above. In addition, it can also be used on servers where they do not have a graphical interface.
For my part, if I want to use a graphical application to connect, I do it from Pidgin, which although it is somewhat lax for IRC, is easy to use and I think more friendly than Xchat.
Pidgin, it is until now that I have tried and liked. I'll try xchat… 😀
I've only used Konveration, it has many options and every day I learn something new from it, I use it to download anime through xdcc.
I've always used xChat, because it also came from mIRC and it's the closest thing I found. However, since I use KDE, I use Quassel, which will integrate better with the rest of the system.
They lack emacs that through ERC serves as an integrated client for irc and other protocols !!
I stay with Xchat complete in every way for me I have nothing more to ask for.