Maintainer: Lindsay F. Marshall (<Lindsay.Marshall @ ncl.ac.uk>)
IRC Channel: None ?
Written in Tcl/Tk, uses the native network communications of Tcl.
You can get the latest version of Zircon from ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/. Homepage at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Zircon/.
Maintainer: Szymon Stefanek (<stefanek @ tin.it>)
IRC Channel: #KVIrc on freenode
Also written with the Qt toolkit, KVIrc is a beast. Supports DCC Voice, built-in scripting language, and plugins.
You can get the latest version of KVIrc from http://www.kvirc.net/?id=download. Homepage at http://www.kvirc.net/.
Maintainer: Peter Zelezny (<zed @ linux.com>)
IRC Channel: #Linux on ChatJunkies
Using GTK+ and optionally GNOME, supports Perl and Python scripting.
You can get the latest version of X-Chat from http://xchat.org/download.html. Homepage at http://xchat.org/.
Maintainer: Patrick Earl (<quirc @ patearl.net>)
IRC Channel: #QuIRC on DALnet
Using Tk, supports Tcl for scripting.
You can get the latest version of QuIRC from his Homepage at http://quirc.org/.