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== IRC ==<br />
=== About ===<br />
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IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. an open and venerable text messaging system, it is still widely used by Free/Open Source projects.<br />
You log into an irc server, using a chat client, with a username. You join a channel, usually for a specific project, and chat with people in that channel.<br />
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Most of the time people will hang out in a channel all or most of the time, and answer when they are active/have time. So it isn't uncommon to ask a question in IRC and get the answer an hour later.<br />
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=== Details ===<br />
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Once you get the client of your choice, you need to pick the following:<br />
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* server: freenode.net or irc.freenode.net<br />
* channel: #tube<br />
* username: pick any name you like (if it collides with someone else you will be prevented/ dropped to a fallback)<br />
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=== Clients ===<br />
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There are many IRC clients for various platforms, and also a web interface.<br />
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====XChat====<br />
* [http://www.silverex.org/download/ windows download]<br />
* [http://www.uplinklabs.net/~tycho/projects/xchat-aqua/ OSX download]<br />
* XChat is there in most Distro's package systems<br />
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XChat is a bit old-timey looking and a slight pain to configure, but works well and gives you most features of irc<br />
====Pidgin====<br />
* [http://www.pidgin.im/download/ downloads]<br />
Pidgin is a nice, user friendly multi-IM client, that supports IRC. <br />
====Web Client====<br />
* [http://webchat.freenode.net/ clicky!]</div>Bassam