irssi
Its the best IRC-client for Linux. Its textbased and you run it in a terminal.
guy1: What IRC client do you run?
guy2: Irssi, of course!
guy2: Irssi, of course!
irssi
A text-based IRC client not just for Linux, but other UNIX systems too, for example MacOS X.
13:20:59 +++ Irssi: Connection to irc.quakenet.org established