I haven't been to an IRC chat in over 5 years so this is pretty new to me. I also just built myself a new Linux machine for development and was not familiar with any Linux IRC clients. For those in a similar situation here is a little info on some Linux/*nix IRC clients. I think I'll try X-Chat as I use Gnome. We'll see. See y'all there tomorrow. By the way the links below came from Linuxberg.com aka Tucows. If you click on one it should take you to a page to direct you to the closest mirror. Hope this helps. Jimmie Houchin IRCII (console client, most popular, full featured) 5 penguins http://download.tucows.com/perl/linuxRegion.html?Target=/conhtml/preview/017... X-Chat (according to the Gnome site, "X-Chat: the canonical GNOME IRC client") Can be compiled with or without Gnome. 4 penguins Homepage for more info: http://xchat.linuxpower.org/ http://download.tucows.com/perl/linuxRegion.html?Target=/gnomehtml/preview/0... YagIRC (GTK client, similar to mIRC) 5 penguins http://download.tucows.com/perl/linuxRegion.html?Target=/x11html/preview/019... kIRC (KDE client, similar to mIRC) 4 penguins http://download.tucows.com/perl/linuxRegion.html?Target=/kdehtml/preview/021...