These time trials have been conducted on my Home PC they are not official ratings, I compiled the figures for my self and anyone else who may have a passing interest.
My machine is a Pentium Dual Core 2.4GHz, 2GB Memory, 250GB HDD, Nvidia 6200 Graphics card 10/100 CAT5 network, 19 TFT VideoSeven Monitor. I used an 80GB HDD for all the installs/trials on the 2nd IDE Channel.
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Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. You might be wondering what makes Irssi such an easy and comfortable client to use, please visit https://www.irssi.org/about for the most beneficial Irssi features.
This is not an official HOWTO but my own preference of how to get irssi, installed and set up. I will be using Fedora 7 for this guide things might be different on your system although its the same on my openSUSE 10.3 so maybe everything is the same on all distro’s?
Install/Download Most distributions have irssi in their repositories so use your favourite installer to get it loaded, on my F7 (Fedora 7) box its a simple (As root) yum install irssi alternatively you can download from https://www.irssi.org/download Once installed it will place the folders under /usr/share/irssi and a hidden .irssi folder in your /home directory before getting all excited and firing up irssi from a terminal;
1st Create a folder in /home/yourname/.irssi called scripts
2nd Create a folder in /home/yourname/.irssi/scripts called autorun
You’ll need these folders later so its best to create them now so that you are aware of them. Next have a look at the official Startup_howto https://www.irssi.org/documentation/startup this will give you an overview to setting up your base defaults such as ‘server’ (Example: irc.freenode.net) and ‘channel’ (Example: #irssi) however you can always use the /set command (in irssi) to review your default preferences and make any changes.
We really need to get a theme loaded the default is OK but dull have a look on https://www.irssi.org/themes and choose the one you like, download it to .irssi in your /home directory now do /set theme evolution (I’m using the evolution.theme one) then do /save wait a few seconds and the new theme colours should start to kick in.
Now we need something that tells us what channel is on what window and any new windows that maybe created from private messages (/pmsg) download adv_windowlist.pl: https://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/Irssi/adv_windowlist.pl
and save it to .irssi/scripts you can link to it by placing a link in .irssi/scripts/autorun