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BitchX

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:54:28 -0500

BitchX is a free IRC client. The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. It was converted to a program on its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in 2004. It is written in C, and is a console application. A graphical interface is also available, which uses the GTK+ toolkit. It works on most Unix-like operating systems, and is distributed under a BSD license. It is originally based on ircII-EPIC and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client. It supports IPv6, multiple servers and SSL, but not UTF-8. BitchX (often called just "BX" by fans) is well known for its unique default of sending random messages on a /quit.

BitchX2 is the current project. While there is no current release to the public on the new code base, the project is leaning towards merging back to the current base version of Epic.

mIRC

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:41:16 -0500

mIRC is the most popular IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client on the web. This shareware allows you to join chat rooms on IRC servers.

Download the fully featured evaluation copy from their website. The evaluation copy works for 30 days before asking you to register.

ChatZilla

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:56:22 -0500

A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.

ChatZilla provides all the usual IRC client features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling.

XChat

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:54:22 -0500

XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

Mozilla Seamonkey

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:56:22 -0400

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.

Under the hood, SeaMonkey uses much of the same Mozilla source code which powers such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird and Miro. Legal backing is provided by the Mozilla Fo unda ti o n.

Visual IRC

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:39 -0500

Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients, nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included script, with the result that the program's behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source code.

irssi

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:23:55 -0400

Irssi is a highly configurable, perl-scriptable, open source (GNU licensed) text-based IRC client. It runs on a command line interface, and is available for most operating systems (including Windows, OSX, and most Linux and BSD distributions). Irssi, like any CLI program, can be run in GNU screen - allowing for users to remotely access running instances of the program without any loss in functionality from anywhere in the world.