DMDirc is a cross platform IRC client written in java, and being developed by Chris ‘MD87′ Smith, Shane ‘Dataforce’ Mc Cormack and Greg ‘Greboid’ Holmes.
DMDirc was started to address the lack of a good IRC client for Linux, it can however be run on any java capable platform, including OSX and Windows.
While there are plenty of reasonable clients, most are lacking in one respect or another and hopefully DMDirc will fill this gap.[
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you’ll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you’ll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, on hundreds of IRC networks, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.
To use IRC you need a small application like mIRC, an IRC client for Windows that was written by [
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DMDirc 0.5.5