IRC

Channels

Server: irc.freenode.net

• #oe - for discussions relating to the building and testing of Open Embedded and for debugging of the building of distributions with OE. If you need help with a distribution based on OE or a GUI environment shipped with OE, then PLEASE go to one or more of the following channels instead
• #angstrom - for discussions relating to the Ångström distribution.
• #openzaurus - for discussions relating to the OpenZaurus distribution.
• #familiar - for discussions relating to the Familiar distribution.
• #gpe - for discussions relating to the GPE handheld environment(GTK/X).
• #opie - for discussions relating to the Opie handheld environment(Qt).
• #openmoko - for discussions relating to the OpenMoko smartphone environment.
• #edev, #elinux - general purpose embedded development

Bots

There is also ibot, which gathers various information from the channels. Poke around. Channel-Logs

Conversation in those channels can be reviewed at:

• http://ibot.rikers.org/

IRC Clients

• Mac OS X: http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/ | http://colloquy.info/ | http://www.pidgin.im/
• GNU/Linux, *BSD: http://www.irssi.org/ | http://www.xchat.org/ | http://www.pidgin.im/
• Windows XP: http://www.xchat.org/ |http://www.pidgin.im/
• Windows Vista/7: http://www.pidgin.im/
• Opie: Opie-Irc
• Firefox: Chatzilla (very easy to install and use)
• web client