openSUSE includes a bunch of IRC clients. Among them: Ksirc (a.k.a. kdenetwork-irc) is
the default KDE client (although Kopete works with both IM and IRC networks). Weechat
is a text-based client available from the Guru YaST repository, and it works in all desktop
environments. Xchat is the X Windows standard IRC client. Kvirc and Konversation are
some other KDE-based clients, and tkirc is a command-line client based on the tcl-tk
language. If you don??™t already have a favorite, try them all.
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CAUTION
For security reasons, never run an IRC client as Root. For the most secure IRC experience,
create a special IRC user and always launch your client as that user.
When encountering IRC for the first time, it can be a little intimidating. Unless you know
exactly where you??™re going (as when someone invites you to a specific channel on a
particular network), you have a multitude of choices.
Your first choice is the network server. Each client offers a wealth of public IRC servers to
connect to (Kopete lists 49 in its wizard; Xchat lists 73).
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