Glad you could stop by the Linux Basement site. Linux Basement is an informational Podcast about Linux, open source software and lots of other wonderful technology. If you want to find out more about open source technologies, subscribe and have a listen!

#linuxbasement is up at irc.freenode.net

MP3 Feed
Ogg Vorbis Feed
MP3 Feed (all episodes)
Ogg Feed (all episodes)

Video blog (not the show!)

  

IRC server experience

Submitted by jordoncm on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 19:13.

I would love to hear an episode about how you got your IRC channel running.

‹ VMWARE Virtual machine Website Registration Glitch ›
»

Internet Relay Chat

Submitted by Hal9000v8 on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 19:29.

In summary:

  • Choose an IRC service network such as FreeNode, DALnet, EFnet, etc. #LinuxBasement is on FreeNode since it is specifically for open source discussion.
  • Start your IRC client program (Xchat, Irssi, Pidgin, etc) and connect to the network, in this case, chat.freenode.net
  • At this point you should use Nickserv to password protect your nickname.  For help on this type "/msg nickserv help"
  • To create your channel, just type "/join #youchannelname"
  • At this point, use the instructions in "/msg chanserv help" to register the channel to you.

 
That is very brief, but will get you on the way to owning your very own IRC channel.
 
PeteTheGeek
# 25 years of messing about with computers #

ircd

Submitted by carboman on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 18:51.

irc looks like it would run on a minimal machine, but a nightnare to control. I started one locally on on of my servers, there seems to be a lot to learn. I can see if you do not have some real experience with it, then you might get bitten in the back. rtfm time....

ircd

Submitted by carboman on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 18:53.

ooppss