Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux IRC

On LInux, we'll be using XChat, a popular graphical IRC chat client.

IRC client setup instructions

Start a command prompt. You can review how to do this in the command line navigation section.
At the command prompt:
- If you are running Ubuntu or Debian (or another dpkg-based system), type:
```
sudo apt-get install xchat
```
  and enter your administrator password when prompted.
- If you are running Fedora (or another yum-based system), type:
```
sudo yum install xchat
```
  and enter your administrator password when prompted.
  
  Note that asterisks won't be displayed as you type your passwords.
  We'll talk more about sudo, apt, and yum later in the day.
Read through the material on Getting started with XChat. We'll practice using IRC in depth later in the day.