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OFTC (Open Free Support Network) stands as a foundational corner of the internet dedicated strictly to providing stable communication infrastructure for the global open-source community. Established in 2001, it is explicitly structured as a non-profit organisation governance model to ensure the network remains permanently free from corporate interference or ownership disputes. It serves as the official, trusted home for major global software foundations, technical projects, and Linux distributions.

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Tracked since Jul 2026 · last updated 58 secs ago · user & channel counts only, no message content
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Users online
15,279
▲ 1.0% vs yesterday
Channels
4,000
▼ 0.4% vs yesterday
Servers
17
All-time peak
15,984
reached 5 Oct 2026
People on OFTC
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Last 30 days
Peak 15,984
14.3k
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Capabilities

What the server advertises on connect (ISUPPORT / 005) - the network's technical spec.

Software hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.7.3
Network name
OFTC
Channel types
#
Prefixes
(ov)@+
Channel modes
eIqb,k,l,cimnpstzMRS
Nick length
30
Channel length
50
Topic length
391
Case mapping
rfc1459
Modes / line
4
Max targets
1
Channel limit
#:250
Away length
160
Kick length
160
Max list
beI:100
KNOCKSAFELISTCALLERIDEXCEPTSINVEXELIST

Servers

17 servers on the network, mapped from its server links.

nucleus.oftc.net root Brisbane, Australia hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.7.3 seen MOTD 
-   O
-    \   The Open and Free
-     O  Technology Community
-    /|  https://www.oftc.net
- O-O O
-
- Welcome to the OFTC IRC Network.
-
- The Open and Free Technology Community was founded at the
- end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the Open
- Source and Free Software communities; it is aimed at
- providing these communities with better communication,
- development, and support infrastructure. Our goal is to
- provide stable services to members of the community in any
- part of the world, while listening closely to their needs
- and desires.
-
- We are not a general purpose chat platform, but a topical
- network intent on providing the open source and free
- software communities a means to cooperate and communicate.
- As such, illegal and off-topic activity, such as warez
- trading, will result in being barred from access.
-
- OFTC honors your privacy. To operate the network, we store
- and process information about IRC connections, nicknames,
- and channels. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with
- that data, and what your rights are. By connecting, you
- accept these terms: https://www.oftc.net/Privacy_Policy/
-
- If you require assistance with using the OFTC IRC network,
- stop by in channel #oftc, or email [email protected] with
- details. For help with non-IRC questions please refer to
- the respective channels and project homepages.
-
- Thanks and enjoy your stay! The OFTC team.
charm.oftc.net 1 hop Fremont, CA, USA seen details

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charon.oftc.net 1 hop London, United Kingdom seen details

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graviton.oftc.net 1 hop Vancouver, BC, Canada seen details

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reflection.oftc.net 1 hop Montréal, Quebec, Canada seen details

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reticulum.oftc.net 1 hop Berlin, Germany seen details

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singleton.oftc.net 1 hop Singapore hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.7.3 seen MOTD

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-   O
-    \   The Open and Free
-     O  Technology Community
-    /|  https://www.oftc.net
- O-O O
-
- Welcome to the OFTC IRC Network.
-
- The Open and Free Technology Community was founded at the
- end of 2001 by a group of experienced members of the Open
- Source and Free Software communities; it is aimed at
- providing these communities with better communication,
- development, and support infrastructure. Our goal is to
- provide stable services to members of the community in any
- part of the world, while listening closely to their needs
- and desires.
-
- We are not a general purpose chat platform, but a topical
- network intent on providing the open source and free
- software communities a means to cooperate and communicate.
- As such, illegal and off-topic activity, such as warez
- trading, will result in being barred from access.
-
- OFTC honors your privacy. To operate the network, we store
- and process information about IRC connections, nicknames,
- and channels. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with
- that data, and what your rights are. By connecting, you
- accept these terms: https://www.oftc.net/Privacy_Policy/
-
- If you require assistance with using the OFTC IRC network,
- stop by in channel #oftc, or email [email protected] with
- details. For help with non-IRC questions please refer to
- the respective channels and project homepages.
-
- Thanks and enjoy your stay! The OFTC team.
synthon.oftc.net 1 hop MA, USA seen details

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Channels

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#alpine-linux 678 4.4% +4.3% Alpine Linux, the secure lightweight distro | release 3.24.2 is out! | slow channel, ask your question and wait for a response. :) This channel is logged: https
#asahi 644 4.2% +10.5% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | "Does XXX work yet?": https://alx.sh/fs | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Topics: #asahi-
#fdroid 509 3.3% +16.2% F-Droid, the free and open source app repository (official channel bridged with #fdroid:f-droid.org on Matrix) | Public logs at https://matrix.f-droid.org/alias
#oftc 492 3.2% +1.4% https://www.oftc.net | OFTC's public support channel. Our social channel is #moocows | Do NOT paste spam when reporting it | Want a cloak/vhost? See https://www
#dri-devel 452 3.0% +1.3% <ajax> nothing involved with X should ever be unable to find a bar
#asahi-dev 426 2.8% +13.9% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Non-development talk: #asahi | General development | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Logs
#debian-next 425 2.8% +1.0% testing → forky | you may need to debug sometimes | faq: https://deb.li/sidfaq | ongoing transitions: https://deb.li/xns | multiarch fun: /msg dpkg multiarch f
#chimera-linux 385 2.5% +17.7% https://chimera-linux.org | matrix: #chimera-linux:matrix.org | read first + links: https://chimera-linux.org/community
#alpine-devel 335 2.2% +1.8% Alpine Linux distribution development | release 3.24.2 is out!
#debian-mentors 334 2.2% +4.7% Get help contributing (inc packaging, infra) | Join #packaging for other packaging | Join #debian for user support | Thanks for being friendly and helpful | Lin
#why2025 315 2.1% -3.4% WHY2025, Aug 8-12 2025 % ​Compliments and feedback: [email protected] & https://wiki.why2025.org/Feedback ​
#tor 300 2.0% +8.7% Welcome to #tor, which is for asking questions about using Tor | FAQ: https://support.torproject.org/ | Forum: https://forum.torproject.org | Developer discussi
#virt 291 1.9% +3.9% libvirt, virt-manager, gtk-vnc, virt-top and virt-p2v | For oVirt, goto #ovirt | Please STAY and wait for an answer.. | https://libvirt.org
#freedesktop 283 1.9% +2.2% https://www.freedesktop.org infrastructure and online services || for questions about freedesktop.org projects, please see each project's contact || for discuss
#debian-offtopic 274 1.8% +4.2% #debian social and offtopic chatter | try to keep it mildly family-friendly | not a support channel → #debian | rants → /dev/null | a minute of silence, please:
#aarch64-laptops 251 1.6% +7.7% Linux support for AArch64 Laptops (Various Snapdragon laptops) - WIP kernel: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/arm64-laptops/linux/-/commits/qcom-laptops - Chat archive
#linux 247 1.6% +6.0% Get Linux help | Please be patient when asking | You'll need to authenticate to talk.
#ceph 239 1.6% 0.0% http://ceph.com/get || dev channel #ceph-devel || test lab channel #sepia || dashboard channel: #ceph-dashboard
#asahi-gpu 238 1.6% +9.7% Asahi Linux GPU development (no user support, NO binary reversing) | Keep things on topic | GitHub: https://alx.sh/g | Wiki: https://alx.sh/w | Logs: https://al
#llvm 234 1.5% -0.4% The official LLVM community real-time chat is now at https://discord.com/invite/xS7Z362
#asahi-re 232 1.5% +8.9% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Hardware / boot process / firmware interface reverse engineering | WARNING: this channel (only) may contain b
#tor-project 230 1.5% -0.4% Welcome to #tor-project, a channel for non-technical discussions by the Tor project community --- feel free to watch, or become a Tor person and participate. |
#moocows 220 1.4% +1.8% This is #moocows, OFTC's social channel. Moooooo! | Get Network/IRC/Services related help in #oftc | Please dont antagonise the cows. | Polite conversation only
#pipewire 218 1.4% +1.4% PipeWire multimedia daemon. See https://pipewire.org. Latest version: 1.6.8. You must be registered with NickServ to speak (due to bot spam). Bridged to #pipewi
#asahi-alt 217 1.4% +16.7% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | User-contributed/unofficial distribution ports | Logs: https://alx.sh/l/asahi-alt
#tor-dev 211 1.4% +9.3% This is the channel for developing Tor. Feel free to watch, but please take commentary to #tor-project and usage questions to #tor. | Relay operator discussion
#suckless 201 1.3% -2.9% suckless.org | EN | Use your brain | No patch handholding
#debian-rust 172 1.1% -1.1% https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/ see https://deb.li/rtbook for intro & docs | team meeting TBD | https://rustsec.debian.net/
#alpine-offtopic 163 1.1% +6.5% Alpine Linux | Friendly, offtopic chat. Keep it respectful and non-political | MTBF: 2 days | Use #alpine-linux for support
#asahi-offtopic 160 1.0% +22.1% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Off topic discussion. Please follow the code of conduct: https://asahilinux.org/code-of-conduct/ | Privately
#tor-relays 157 1.0% -1.9% Welcome to #tor-relays, a channel for discussions by the Tor relay operator community --- feel free to watch, or become a Tor relay operator and participate. |
#nouveau 142 0.9% +2.9% [Logged] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org | Please read TroubleShooting, Bugs and FAQ first. | IRC Logs: https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/index.php
#radeon 140 0.9% 0.0% Support and development for open-source radeon/amdgpu drivers - http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo
#linux-msm 130 0.9% +3.2%
#postmarketos-conference 128 0.8% +103.2% The postmarketOS and Alpine Linux Conference 2026 is now over - see you next year <3 | https://postmarketos.org/conference | Schedule: https://pretalx.postmarke
#debian-social 125 0.8% 0.0% IRC channel for Debian Social | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSocial/
#s6 121 0.8% +6.1% s6, the skarnet.org supervision suite, and related software.
#asahi-stream 120 0.8% +11.1% Asahi Linux: porting Linux to Apple Silicon macs | Stream chat
#mesonbuild 119 0.8% -5.6% Discussion about the Meson build system | 1.12.0 rc1 is out, test, test, test | You must be registered or connected via Matrix to join due to spam.
#linux-media 118 0.8% +2.6% Linux Kernel Media Subsystem (LinuxTV) | *only registered users can talk* | https://linuxtv.org | logs: https://linuxtv.org/irc/oftc/log/linux-media | bugs: htt
#mm 115 0.8% +0.9% #mm-chat for off-topic talk | as for me, -mm code doesn't pass my blood brain barrier | Free/alloc optimizations are scary, without reading the code. | do not t
#libcamera 113 0.7% +15.3% Welcome to the libcamera.org official development channel | Bugs are tracked in https://bugs.libcamera.org/
#feather 111 0.7% +14.4% A free Monero desktop wallet. | Feel free to ask for help or a feature. | Beware of PMs from scammers. | https://featherwallet.org | RSK: 8185 E158 A333 30C7 FD
#intel-gfx 105 0.7% +1.0% https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/intel-docs/ - Intel kernel & media graphics development discussion | For Intel 3D discussion, join #intel-3d | How to report b
#panfrost 96 0.6% -5.9% Panfrost - FLOSS Mali Midgard + Bifrost + Valhall - Logs https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/panfrost
#codema.in 95 0.6% 0.0%
#C 91 0.6% +3.4% Welcome to #C. Everything relating to the programming language is on-topic here. For sockets programming, Google for "Beej Network Guide".
#freedombox 86 0.6% -2.3% FreedomBox user support and discussion | https://freedombox.org | https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual | #freedombox-dev for developers
#debian-dfsg 85 0.6% +2.4% DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DFSG
#tor-admin 85 0.6% 0.0% torproject.org support | unresolved issues https://karma.torproject.org/ | get help at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/support | Nulla solutio optima solutio es
#packaging 84 0.5% +6.3% Get help with packaging for non-distro package repositories | #debian-mentors for packages for ftp.debian.org
#alpine-security 81 0.5% +9.5% Alpine Linux' security team | https://security.alpinelinux.org
#kvm 81 0.5% +11.1% - Kernel-mode Virtual Machine
#debian-games 80 0.5% +8.1% Help with packaging games for Debian | Join #debian for user support | About: https://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team | Email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-
#alpine-infra 78 0.5% +5.5% Alpine Linux Infra Team channel
#debian-raspberrypi 78 0.5% -10.3% https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi (help making the wiki pages up-to-date!) | Prebuilt images: https://raspi.debian.net | No support for RaspiOS here
#freerdp 74 0.5% +32.1% FreeRDP library | last old-stable release: 2.11.7 | last stable release: 3.18.0 | https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/ (issues, source, docs) | https://www.freer
#xorg 74 0.5% -2.6% The official support channel for X.org, now spammer free!
#xfs 73 0.5% +2.8% XFS - The Black Leather Jacket of not horrible filesystems
#debian-devel-changes 72 0.5% -5.2% d-d-c | RC bug count: 568 | stable RC bug count: 565 | NEW queue: 40 | backports NEW queue: 9 | RM queue: 60 | dinstall: not running
#ovirt 71 0.5% +1.4% "This chat is bridged to matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#ovirt:ovirt.tech"
#debian-live 71 0.5% -1.4% 13.7.0 released | older images (12.x, etc.): https://deb.li/3vkd0 | https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/ and https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive for m
#tor-anticensorship 71 0.5% +2.9% Tor Anticensorship Team - meetings Thursdays 16:00 UTC @ #tor-meeting
#debusine 70 0.5% +6.1% NEW: https://wiki.debian.org/DebusineDebianNet#Repositories | Debusine software project @ https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/debusine | debusine.debian.net
#ceph-devel 70 0.5% -4.1% http://tracker.ceph.com || https://github.com/ceph/ || [email protected] || dashboard chat: #ceph-dashboard || user chat: #ceph || test lab: #sepia
#linux-rt 70 0.5% +1.4% Realtime on Linux, not general Linux questions | 5.15.163-rt78 5.14.2-rt21 5.10.78-rt56 5.4.129-rt61 4.19.196-rt83 4.14.87-rt50 | rt-tests-1.10 | Blame Stephen
#glibc 70 0.5% -2.8% glibc | Wiki https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/HomePage
#lk2nd 67 0.4% +26.4% Custom bootloader for Qualcomm devices (apq8084, mdm9607, msm8226, msm8610, msm8909, msm8916, msm8952, msm8953, msm8960, msm8974, msm8994, msm8996) and more! |
#intel-3d 67 0.4% -2.9% <airlied> you don't debug 3D so much as weep uncontrollably | Intel Mesa devroom | http://www.mesa3d.org | http://01.org/linuxgraphics | Register your nick to t
#debian-kde 66 0.4% -9.6% Welcome to #debian-kde https://qt-kde-team.pages.debian.net/ || Plasma 6 FAQ: https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206 || bookworm F 5.103 P 5.27.5 G 22.12 || trixie/
#webengineshackfest 65 0.4% +8.3% Web Engines Hackfest 2022 - https://www.webengineshackfest.org/2022/ - June 13 & 14 - https://twitter.com/webhackfest - https://github.com/Igalia/webengineshack
#debconf-hamburg 63 0.4% -6.0% https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/ | feedback appreciated | save the dates: 20270524-20270531 && 20280508-20280515 (registration opening to be announced on d
#msm8916-mainline 62 0.4% +17.0% Mainline Linux and related projects for Qualcomm MSM8909, MSM8916 and MSM8939 | https://github.com/msm8916-mainline | Bridged to #msm8916:postmarketos.org on Ma
#buildroot 62 0.4% +6.9% Buildroot - Making Embedded Linux easy - http://buildroot.org - Documentation at http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html
#bcachefs-ai 62 0.4% +6.8% https://evilpiepirate.org/forge/kent/consciousness | https://poc.bcachefs.org/paper.pdf
#musl-distros 61 0.4% +1.7% musl distros consortium | bringing musl libc to the world | list (and instructions): https://distros.musl.libc.org/archive/
#msys2 60 0.4% -1.6% MSYS2: UNIX-like shell and build platform for Windows with mingw-w64 toolchains | We're active on Discord: https://discord.gg/jPQdRdDcT9
#tor-browser-dev 60 0.4% +5.3%
#nuug 57 0.4% 0.0% Foreningen Norwegian Unix User Group | https://www.nuug.no/ | Kommende arrangementer: https://nuug.no/adict/?organizer=NUUG | https://wiki.nuug.no/ | Bli NUUG-m
#debian-devel-br 56 0.4% -9.7% Canal Matrix: #debian-devel-br:matrix.debian.social | Reunião Semanal: Quintas às 20h em https://meet.debianbrasil.org.br/
#gstreamer 55 0.4% 0.0% GStreamer multimedia framework || 1.28.7 stable release is out! || Legacy IRC channel, join Matrix for chat : https://matrix.to/#/#community:gstreamer.org || D
#alpine-docs 54 0.4% +17.4% Home of the Alpine Linux documentation team | https://docs.alpinelinux.org | https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/docs
#sm7150-mainline 54 0.4% -10.0% Mainline Linux for Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/7323G (SM7150) | Bridged to #sm7150-mainline:matrix.org
#sm8250-mainline 51 0.3% +8.5% Mainline Linux for Qualcomm Snapdragon 865/865+/870 (SM8250) | Bridged to #sm8250-mainline on matrix.org
#debian.ch 51 0.3% -25.0% Helvetic Debian | All languages and dialects welcome | MiniDC https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/ Aug 29-30. 2026 | https://debian.ch | https://wiki.debian.org/Loc
#alpine-commits 51 0.3% +6.3%
#stagex 49 0.3% +22.5% [Stageˣ]: container-native, full-source bootstrapped, and reproducible toolchain to build all the things | https://codeberg.org/stagex | https://stagex.tools (s
#vbox 49 0.3% -14.0% The topic is: VirtualBox 7.2.14 released! --- Forum: https://forums.virtualbox.org/ --- Bugtracker: https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues --- User Gui
#debian-bsb 48 0.3% +2.1% Canal Matrix: #debian-bsb:matrix.debian.social | Reunião Semanal Quintas às 19h no https://meet.debianbsb.org | https://pad.riseup.net/p/debianbrasilia-keep
#debconf-wafer 46 0.3% +114.3%
#/s/oftach 46 0.3% +27.8% Канал s@ | /s/elf ho/s/ters | IRC - #/s/oftach on irc.oftc.net, XMPP - #\2fs\[email protected]
#msm8937-mainline 46 0.3% +4.5% Boot Linux on your MSM8917/37/40 and QM215 mobile! | GitHub: https://github.com/msm89x7-mainline | Logs: https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/msm8937-mainline | B
#wikicensorship 46 0.3% +4.5% Talk about Internet censorship events.
#debian-wiki 46 0.3% 0.0% debian-wiki: forum for Debian Wiki discussion | see also the [email protected] ML for further discussion
#debian-quebec 45 0.3% -2.2% groupe d'utilisateurs-trices Debian du Québec - Québec Debian User Group (DUG) https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups/DebianQuebec https://lists.debian.org/debian-
#gccrust 44 0.3% +15.8% GCC Rust Frontend
#OpenBSD 44 0.3% +12.8% Welcome to #OpenBSD
#tor-bots 44 0.3% +7.3% This channel is used by bots to report status updates in the Tor ecosystem
#x86 43 0.3% +10.0% the support for i486 costs us more than it is worth
#xen 43 0.3% +13.2% We have moved to Matrix! Please join #XenProject:matrix.org
#wpe 42 0.3% 0.0% Discussion about the WPE WebKit port — https://wpewebkit.org | Stable: 2.54.1, Development: n/a
#iwd 42 0.3% -4.5% https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/start
#why2025-noc 42 0.3% -4.5%
#Corsair 41 0.3% +35.5% We're elite privateers who like to talk about GNU/Linux, hardware, software, programming, the universe and anything else in a civilized way! | Have you made IRC
#yaook 40 0.3% +8.1% Yaook! • https://yaook.cloud • https://gitlab.com/yaook/ • https://docs.yaook.cloud/
#etnaviv 40 0.3% 0.0% #etnaviv - the home of the reverse-engineered Vivante GPU driver - Logs https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/etnaviv
#debian-ai 40 0.3% +14.3% unoffical #debian-ai channel | https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/ | https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy/
#sc7280-mainline 40 0.3% +11.1% SC7280/SM7325/QCM6490 mainline development
#debian-xfce 39 0.3% +2.6% Xfce for Debian | 4.18 in Bookworm | to-review: | locked: Corsac[], Unit193[] | Blocked: xfce4-genmon-plugin/4.2.0 | TODO: | Bugs: https://deb.li/3NGmh
#git.fosscommunity.in 38 0.2% +5.6%
###WorldChat 38 0.2% +171.4% Welcome to our worldchat, here all conversations are accepted. Sexchat will not be accepted here and will be banned from the channel. Accepted languages: Englis
#Qubes_OS 38 0.2% +15.2% Join us on Matrix:  https://riot.im/app/#/room/#Qubes-OS:matrix.org
#debian-bananas 37 0.2% +15.6% Debian Bananas Team - Go Team ARM64, https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Bananas
#powervr 36 0.2% 0.0% PowerVR open source driver discussion - Logs https://oftc.catirclogs.org/powervr
#edk2 36 0.2% +2.9% EDK II / OVMF / UEFI development discussions | http://www.tianocore.org/edk2
#debian-openstack-commits 36 0.2% -2.7% Automatic notification of commits in the OpenStack Debian packaging group. Please do not chat in this channel, use #debian-openstack instead.
#tillitis 35 0.2% +6.1% Tillitis Key https://tillitis.se/
#tor-network-health 35 0.2% +12.9%
#thelounge 35 0.2% 0.0%
#gentoo 34 0.2% -2.9% Gentoo Linux Support -- https://www.gentoo.org/ | Use ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/#gentoo for a busier Gentoo Linux support channel!
#bpftrace 34 0.2% +9.7% bpftrace: Dynamic Tracing for Linux. https://bpftrace.org | https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace
#debconf-germany 34 0.2% +6.3% minidebconf2025 where in .de? | Back to being happy DebCampers | https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2024/MiniDebconfBerlin
#tor-l10n 34 0.2% +6.3% welcome to the tor localization channel, if you want to help translating tor, please see https://community.torproject.org/localization/becoming-tor-translator/
#dfri_se 33 0.2% -8.3% DFRI - Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter | https://www.dfri.se/
#lowtech 33 0.2% -2.9% microsoft penis 97 service package 2
#rspamd 33 0.2% -10.8% Rspamd spam filter: https://rspamd.com | http://t.me/rspamd - telegram channel
#tor-south 33 0.2% +6.3% Tor Global South - Comunidad Tor del Sur Global | lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/global-south | community.torproject.org | forum.torproject.net |
#debconf-cambridge 32 0.2% +14.3% Cambridge Miniconf 2026 : https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2026/MiniDebConfCambridge | https://onsite.live.debconf.org/player.html | 2026 sponsors are (s
#alpine-cloud 32 0.2% +10.3% Alpine Linux cloud images https://alpinelinux.org/cloud/
#haiku-3rdparty 31 0.2% +14.3% Third party devtalk for the Haiku® operating system | Main Haiku channel: #haiku | Bored? Tons of stuff to work on here: https://github.com/HaikuArchives | Logs
#perl 31 0.2% +6.9% Sexy support group for Perl users ... and remember, we can't answer before you ask. || Also, remember this isn't #ninja-perl - please wait for a response! || /m
#help 31 0.2% +6.9% Need technical help? You're not alone. Tell us your problem and we'll see what we can do. Be patient, we're not always awake. | For OFTC-related questions, use
#xz-backdoor-reversing 31 0.2% +10.7% This room is for reverse engineering. Please use #xz-backdoor-chat:nil.im for general chat. Wiki to document findings: https://github.com/Midar/xz-backdoor-docu
#mox 31 0.2% 0.0% mox mail server, https://github.com/mjl-/mox
#debian-edu 30 0.2% -3.2% https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Bookworm and …/Bullseye and …/Buster and …/Stretch | please help with http://i18n.debian.org/l10n-pkg-status/d/debian-e
#ck 30 0.2% +14.8% http://ck-hack.blogspot.com ; Latest -ck: 7.2-ck1 | http://kernel.kolivas.org | lrzip 0.7.2 http://lrzip.kolivas.org | Latest MuQSS: 0.310 | git repos https://g
#debian-glibc 30 0.2% +3.3% 2.41 (trixie), 2.43 (forky/sid), 2.44 (experimental)
#meli 30 0.2% +7.1% v0.8.13 has been released! Changelog: https://release.meli-email.org/v0.8.13 | official channel for meli, a terminal mail client. https://meli-email.org | Don't
#xe 30 0.2% 0.0% https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/ - A new DRM driver for Intel GPUs
#ml-mainline 29 0.2% 0.0% Doing accelerated machine learning with the mainline kernel. This channel is logged: https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=ml-mainline
#archlinux 28 0.2% +27.3% Welcome to #archlinux @ OFTC! (non-official channel) archlinux.org | bbs.archlinux.org | wiki.archlinux.org | bugs.archlinux.org | aur.archlinux.org
#woob 28 0.2% +12.0% Woob v3.7 :: Web Outside Of Browsers :: https://woob.tech/ :: https://woob.dev/
#kernel-mentees 28 0.2% +12.0% Linux Kernel Mentees IRC Channel - https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lkmp - LF Mentorships: https://bit.ly/3oNxIcj https://bit.ly/2XFUh6S
#ext4 28 0.2% +3.7% ext[234] development :: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org :: list archives at http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4 :: Register w/ nickserv to speak
#debian.net 28 0.2% +7.7% https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianNet
#!/bin/mksh 28 0.2% +3.7% The MirBSD Korn Shell | http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm R59c (2020-10-31) | mksh/Win32 Beta 14 || dev version: $ CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d [email protected]:/
#br 27 0.2% +600.0% Bem vindos ao canal #BR - O Canal de Todos Brasileiros - InterIRC Relay Chat
#osmf-operations 27 0.2% +17.4% Meeting Thursday June 25, 19:00 London time. Agenda at https://hackmd.io/aCi9MajCQRCLykT7nkvaGA
#i2p 27 0.2% +12.5% I2P Community & Support Channel | Current: 0.9.20 (Please upgrade!) | Off-topic discussions to #i2p-chat | Multi-line pastes to pastethis.i2p | Report bugs at t
#why2025-badge 27 0.2% 0.0% WHY2025 Badge
#msm8226-mainline 27 0.2% -6.9% Mainline Linux development for the Snapdragon 400 (MSM8x26 and APQ8026)
#alpine-riscv64 27 0.2% 0.0% Alpine Linux riscv64 porting effort
#osm-fr 27 0.2% -12.5% Discussions sur Openstreetmap en français - https://www.openstreetmap.fr - hebdoOSM 655 https://weeklyosm.eu/fr/archives/16294
#mobian-ports 27 0.2% 0.0%
#debian-tiny-tasks 27 0.2% -22.9% https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks
#amlogic-postmarketos 27 0.2% -6.9% Nura on Amlogic · Porting: https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Amlogic/Porting_set_top_boxes · TODO: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2487
#bash 26 0.2% +13.0% [B]ourne [A]gain [Sh]ell: http://bit.ly/1kpSKFc | Common mistakes (check here first): http://bit.ly/1CiXyEV | Execute Bash code online? http://bit.ly/1M7KFWa |
#virgil3d 26 0.2% -3.7%
#debian-gnupg 26 0.2% 0.0% https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/GnuPG/ -- Debian packaging for gnupg and related utilities -- in testing: gnupg2 provides /usr/bin/gpg, gnupg1 provides /usr/bin/g
#videocore-ci 25 0.2% +56.3% Reports from videocore CI runners
#sysadmin-ua 25 0.2% +25.0% SysAdmin Україна | SysAdmin, SRE, DevOps, SysOps українською мовою. Міст з Matrix: #sysadmin.ua:matrix.org
#xz-backdoor-chat 25 0.2% +8.7% General chat about the XZ backdoor
#alpine-loongarch 25 0.2% -3.8% Alpine Linux loongarch64 porting effort!
#tor-alerts 25 0.2% +4.2% stay alert, human!
#debian-lists 25 0.2% -3.8% listmaster: Cord, dondelelcaro, formorer, zobel, Rince | [email protected] | If you have problems, we need: Date (UTC), From, To, Msgid, IPs, Logfile-entries fro
#Informatica 25 0.2% +733.3% Canal de Suporte a Informatica em Português
#communitydata-casual 24 0.2% +118.2% Informal #communitydata channel for spitballing, chitchat, sharing stuff for fun, anything random
#sigsum 24 0.2% +9.1% Signed Checksum Logging | https://www.sigsum.org/
#ceph-dashboard 24 0.2% +4.3% Discussing the Ceph Dashboard
#sdm670-mainline 24 0.2% -7.7%
#debconf-fosdem 24 0.2% -4.0% https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2026/FOSDEM | there are no passengers on this ship, only crew members
#bcachefs-dev 24 0.2% 0.0%
#platformsecurity 23 0.2% +35.3% Discussions on TPMs, Secure Boot etc, and open tooling; https://matrix.to/#/#_oftc_#platformsecurity:matrix.org
#liminix 23 0.2% 0.0% Liminix development and questions. Check the web site and docs at https://www.liminix.org/
#debian-til-ot 23 0.2% -4.2% share whatever you learned whenever
#debian-ipv6 23 0.2% -8.0% IPv6 and Debian | HOWTO: http://ipv6.debian.net | there is also #ipv6/libera | Don't ask to ask, just ask… and then be patient.
#tkycpwp 22 0.1% +37.5%
#beacondb 22 0.1% +10.0% beaconDB | public domain wireless geolocation database | https://beacondb.net/
#pkgconf 22 0.1% +10.0% pkgconf, a modern replacement for pkg-config. please ask any question and then wait patiently (possibly days) for a response. | git has moved back to github due
#debian-qemu 22 0.1% -4.3%
#watcom 22 0.1% 0.0% Open Watcom 1.9 C/C++ & Fortran 77: https://openwatcom.org/ | http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/watfaq.shtml
#fdroid-translators 21 0.1% +31.3% F-Droid translation discussion (official channel) | Use #fdroid:f-droid.org for general, app- and repo-related matters | For development discussion use #fdroid-
#nncp 21 0.1% +10.5% NNCP, the node-to-node copy, successor to UUCP, with asynchronous end-to-end crypto and onion routing https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/ | Bridged to #nncp:matrix.o
#plan9 21 0.1% +5.0% go to irc.libera.chat instead of this channel.
#openstack-octavia 21 0.1% +23.5%
#aosp-developers 21 0.1% +10.5% AOSP developer collaboration
#freedombox-dev 21 0.1% -4.5% FreedomBox development discussion | https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team | https://docs.freedombox.org | #freedombox-ci for build notifications
#gnualgol 21 0.1% 0.0% https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Algol68FrontEnd
#why2025-volunteers 21 0.1% +5.0% WHY2025 Volunteer room
#debian-ubuntu 21 0.1% 0.0% Not for end user support of any kind | To improve the collaboration and reduce the differences between Debian and Ubuntu | http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFro
#alpine-hardened 21 0.1% -4.5% discussion of alpine hardening projects: fortify-headers, openpax, etc.
#grml 21 0.1% +15.8% Grml Live Linux | Grml 2026.09 available! -> https://grml.org/ + https://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2026.09/ | Daily Snapshots: https://daily.grml.org/ | h
#mirbsd 21 0.1% -4.5% The MirOS Project | http://www.mirbsd.org/ | MirBSD, a free 4.4BSD based system; MirPorts Framework; mksh; jupp; kwalletcli; paxmirabilis; RANDEX; {glob,tiff}.g
#Tanaweb 20 0.1% +233.3% [#Tanaweb] Cultura, Lazer e Diversao! Webchat: http://chat.tanaweb.org Instagram: @tanaweb_ Hospedagens/VPS: http://mega.tanaweb.org WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.
#sailfishos-fanclub 20 0.1% +42.9% SailfishOS Fan Club community channel| Group rules: http://telegra.ph/Sailfish-OS-Fan-Club-05-19
##worldchat 20 0.1% +25.0% Welcome to our worldchat, here all conversations are accepted. Sexchat will not be accepted here and will be banned from the channel. Accepted languages: Englis
#apk-tools 20 0.1% +5.3%
#alpine-arm 20 0.1% 0.0% #alpine-arm - Alpine Linux ARM platform (aarch64, armv7, armhf)
#security 20 0.1% 0.0% Welcome to #Security - Topics include platform independent computing, enterprise networking, & information security
#alpine-reproducible 20 0.1% +5.3% Reproducible Alpine Linux - https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/alpine/alpine.html