• Source: Comparison of IRC clients

The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior published sources.




General


Basic general information about the notableclients: creator/company, license, etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.




Release


A brief overview of the release history.




Operating system support


The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).

Unix and Unix-like operating systems:

Unix (BSD): 386BSD, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX
Unix (System V): AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, UnixWare
Unix-like: Linux, NeXTSTEP, OpenVMS, OSF/1, QNX, Tru64 UNIX




Protocol support


What IRC related protocols and standards are supported by each client.




= Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) support

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The Direct Client-to-Client Protocol (DCC) has been the primary method of establishing connections directly between IRC clients for a long time now. Once established, DCC connections bypass the IRC network and servers, allowing for all sorts of data to be transferred between clients including files and direct chat sessions.




= IRCv3 support

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This software is compliant natively; other software may be compliant with extensions.



IRCv3 SASL mechanisms

IRC SASL authentication primarily uses the same mechanisms as SASL in other protocols. Most commonly:

PLAIN as defined by RFC 4616
EXTERNAL as defined by RFC 4422
SCRAM-SHA-256 as defined by RFC 7677




Features


Information on what features each of the clients support.




See also


Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients
Comparison of user features of messaging platforms
Comparison of instant messaging protocols
Comparison of VoIP software
List of SIP software
Comparison of LAN messengers




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Comparison of IRC clients
• IRC
• PIRCH (IRC client)
• Direct Client-to-Client
• IrcII
• IRC Cloud
• Trillian (software)
• IRCd
• Nettalk (IRC client)
• BitchX