Re: IRC
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <
> debian@polynamaude.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi !
> > Is there some IRC channel for Debian ?
> >
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
It's worth mentioning that there are #debian channels on at least two
different IRC networks: OFTC and Freenode.
All of the "official" Debian channels are on the OFTC network, because
for whatever reason(*), all of the Debian developers moved over there
about 15 years ago.
However, almost all of the Debian *users* are on the Freenode network.
It is what it is.
Freenode's #debian has more people, and you will probably get help there
faster, so long as your question is actually on-topic and reasonable
for an IRC channel. However, all of the specialized channels (like
#debian-next, #debian-boot, or #debian-mentors) are on the OFTC network.
If your question is highly specific, or if you are not using a stable
Debian release, you may need to be on both networks.
Example of common *off-topic* questions for #debian (ones which will get
you ignored, yelled at, or kicked out of the channel, depending on how
you act) include: questions about sid/unstable, questions about Ubuntu,
questions about MX Linux, and questions about Kali Linux.
(*)I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but some of you will remember the
guy I'm thinking of, a Freenode admin who drove a lot of people away. Or
was the network still called OPN at the time? I don't rememeber when
the name changed....
Reply to:
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: IRC
- From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org>
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- From: Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com>
- Re: IRC
- From: IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com>