Easy IRC clientserver for linux for kids, edubuntu, blah blah

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 05:48, Ignoramus19736 stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

I happen to be running an IRC network with a few friends of mine. We use the UnrealIRCd IRC server - along with the Auspices IRC Services - but there are surely other good ones. Bahamut springs to mind.

IRCu is quite popular as well - it's what's used on Undernet, for one - but it only allows short nicknames - up to 9 characters - and it doesn't work well with any other IRC Services thanUworld,should such functionality be required.

As for IRC clients, I use (and strongly recommend) the fantasticKVIrc. You can find the latest version - 3.2.0, I believe - on...

I'm still using an old 3.0.0 CVS beta and it's rock solid stable. It has never crashed on me, and my machine is up 24-7.

It exists primarily for UNIX but has been ported to Windows as well, and it's very userfriendly and intuitive, as well as powerful, tweakable and scriptable, using its built-in object-oriented language KVI++.

It's somewhat similar in use to the well-knownmIRCshareware client on Windows - typically used in cybercafŽs - but much, much better. The syntax of the scripting language has elements frombash,-C++and themIRClanguage.

KVIrcuses the Qt widgetset and can be well-integrated with KDE - although that's optional. It supports the use of Avatars, it has support for IPv6 and SSL and it has loads of eyecandy - such as transparency.

I've been in contact with the developers a few times, and they're really very nice people. ;-)

If you're looking for a commandline-only IRC client, you may want to giveunpleasant womanXa spin - it exists for UNIX and DOS - although that one contains some "rude" commands - i.e. with certain four letter words. Perhapsirsiiwould be a better choice then. It comes standard in most distros. -- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)