IRC Resources

Eskimo North founded the Newnet IRC Network in 1995 after a disagreement with the direction EFnet was taking. In particular Efnet wasn't interested in having IRC services, it was something we wanted. EFnet wanted to ban bots, we allowed them. Now EFNet has services and allows IRC Bots.

We offer a variety of IRC clients, precompiled IRC bots, and bouncers. We have both text oriented and graphical clients. We also have extensive TCL script development facilities as well as support for Ruby, Perl, and Python scripting. Our newer server allows the use of X-windows clients redirected to your local desktop, or a full Gnome or KDE desktop environment via X-windows or VNC.

IRC Clients

BitchX is a heavily modified ircII IRC client. It's been around for many years, at least since 1995, perhaps longer. BitchX has support for connecting to multiple channels simultaneously. BitchX is more capable and colorful than ircII, but also more cluttered and confusing. Note that the case is significant, 'BitchX' has to be invoked with the uppercase 'B' and 'X', if you type 'bitchx' you're going to get 'command not found'.

Epic which stands for Enhanced Programmable ircII Client is yet another ircII derived client which evolved in the early 90s along with the evolution of the Epic IRC network. The user interface appears very similar to ircII. The main difference between Epic and the original ircII client is that Epic was designed to be more easily programmable to function as a bot under screen.

ircII (irc) is the grandaddy of all IRC clients. It is the original Unix shell client except that we've updated it to the current release which includes some capabilities not present in the original version. The latest version also resolves some compatibility issues that arose with the original client as server protocols evolved. For additional information, at the shell prompt on shell.eskimo.com, type 'man irc'.

irssi is a modular extensible IRC client that has the unqique capability of being able to connect to any number of IRC servers on different networks simultaneously. If you like to simultaneously chat in half a dozen different networks, this client is for you.

Pidgin is a multi-protocol IM client capable of connecting to AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwide, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, and Zephyr all at the same time.

Scrollz (scrollz) is another ircII derived IRC client. This client implimented a lot of the functionality normally done through scripting in native C making it much faster and more efficient. The interface looks more like BitchX than most other ircII derivatives complete with the ASNI graphics entry screen.

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