6. X Window IRC Clients
6.1. Zircon
Maintainer: Lindsay F. Marshall
IRC Channel: None ?
Written in Tcl/Tk, uses the native network communications of Tcl.
You can get the latest version of Zircon from ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/ . Homepage at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/
6.2. KVIrc
Maintainer: Szymon Stefanek
IRC Channel: #KVIrc on freenode
Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.
You can get the latest version of KVIrc from http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download . Homepage at http://www.kvirc.net/
6.3. X-Chat
Maintainer: Peter Zelezny
IRC Channel: #Linux on ChatJunkies - http://www.chatjunkies.org/servers.php
Using GTK+ and optionally GNOME, supports Perl and Python scripting.
You can get the latest version of X-Chat from http://xchat.org/download/ . Homepage at http://xchat.org/
6.4. QuIRC
Maintainer: Patrick Earl
IRC Channel: #QuIRC on DALnet - http://www.dal.net/servers/index.php3
Using Tk, supports Tcl for scripting.
You can get the latest version of QuIRC from his Homepage at http://quirc.org/