In my option, irssi is the best irc-client ever created. It is lightweight, well customizable and stable. With screen you can keep your irssi online 24/7, and then you can connect to your client from any machine that has Internet connection. My best uptime with irssi is about 60 days, so it is pretty stable. (Reboot killed my irssi)

But here is list why irssi is the best irc-client:

• Fast and lightweight – works on almost any machine
• Console application (no gui) – you can ssh to it and irc without X-server running
• No mouse – I simply love this, I don’t have to move my hands away from the keyboard!
• Customizable – Almost everything can be changed. And there is also nice perl scripting support. (look at script directory)
• Logging – Good logging that even supports log-rotation
• Themes – Lots of cool themes.
• Proxy – You can load irssi-proxy module and connect to your irssi with any irc-client. I think that this is also the best proxy software.

For me it is essential application. I simply can’t live without it.

Irssi homepage

Wmii is advanced light weight window manager for Unix systems. Before Wmii I used KDE, but now I have Mac where I can manage my photos, surf the web and listen to the music. On my Linux box I just play couple of games and write my applications, and mostly I just use terminals. After reading a article about lightweight window managers found Wmii.

Wmii is designed to use with keyboard, without mouse and this is only a good thing for me! If you learn all shortcuts of Wmii before giving up you have superior fast, powerful and comfortable way to manage your terminals.

Because Wmii is just a window manager, it doesn’t include some of the important features like mounting a device, volume control and file manager. Using Internet I learned how to mount devices from command line. I also found cli-applications for controlling volume and files. I control volume using alsamixer utility. For file managing I use command line application called Midnight commander.

Here is screenshot from my new desktop:

My Linux box running Wmii