Tux Training

The Freenode network is home to many participants in free software and free content projects (such as wikis). The registration process is simple and only takes a few minutes. Here are the steps.

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Irssi is a popular IRC client. Its a very popular client for small window managers like fluxbox. This short howto will walk you though the steps for setting up a jail that only has a few commands in it and will help create a much safer IRC enviroment for you. There are a couple things you will need to have installed before we get started. First you need irssi, next you will need jail. First step is to install jail and irssi, so that irssi will work from your regular linux or unix install.

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irssi is a command line IRC client for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:

• on Fedora: yum -install irssi
• on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install irssi
• on openSuse: zypper in irssi
• run the application: irssi

Usage

When the application opens type: /connect “irc_channel” and press enter. As an example:

/connect irc.freenode.net

• /join “#channel” “optional_password”
  • exampe /join kde

And that’s it.