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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....

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IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 17:30 +0200
  Re: IRC IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 17:30 +0200
    Re: IRC Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-19 17:50 +0200
      Re: IRC Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 18:10 +0200
        Re: IRC Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 19:00 +0200
          Re: IRC Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-05-19 19:20 +0200
            Re: IRC Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 19:30 +0200
        Re: IRC Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-05-19 18:40 +0200
        Re: IRC Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-05-19 18:40 +0200
          Re: IRC Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 18:50 +0200
            Re: IRC Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-05-19 21:20 +0200
      Re: IRC Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2021-05-19 18:10 +0200
        Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 18:40 +0200

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