freenode

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freenode
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description IRC network

freenode , formerly known as the Open Projects Network (OPN), is an IRC network whose purpose and goal is to offer a free and stable communication platform for the free software community. Its employees are volunteers. The parent organization of the freenode network was the non-profit organization Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC), which promoted and financed the project. The various IRC servers are named after science fiction and fantasy authors.

The network is now home to several well-known free software projects, such as the Fedora , Gentoo or GNU operating systems . The largest channel with around 1,800 users is # python . The chat channels of the Wikipedia project are also on this network. At peak times, more than 93,000 users are distributed across almost 55,000 channels. While other IRC networks suffered great losses in users, the number of users on freenode is steadily increasing. In 2012, freenode overtook Quakenet in terms of user numbers and has been the largest IRC network in the world ever since.

history

Server locations

freenode was founded on January 29, 1994 as a small support channel #linuxneo in the IRC network EFnet by Rob Levin (lilo) and Pauline Middelink to establish an alternative to the #linux channel in EFnet. Because in this actual Linux support channel #linux newcomers were no longer welcomed and Linux wasn't really the topic that was talked about anymore. After several months of inactivity, something stirred for the first time in August of the same year and the channel was renamed #linpeople at Pauline's suggestion. This chat channel first migrated from EFnet to Undernet and then on to DALnet . In 1995 they obtained their own IRC server, which they operated on an ISDN line : irc.linpeople.org . In 1998 the Open Projects Network (OPN) was founded.

In August 2002 the project was integrated into the PDPC and renamed freenode . In August 2005 the server software ( IRC daemon ) was changed from dancer-ircd to hyperion. This made it possible, among other things, to identify registered nicknames . On January 30, 2010, the software was switched to ircd-seven for reasons of stability and functionality. On March 19, 2013 it was announced that the PDPC organization would be dissolved due to declining donations, but that this would have little influence on freenode.

safety

In June 2006, freenode was hijacked using Rob Levin's password , which is believed to have intercepted around 25 NickServ passwords. Users have been advised to change all of their passwords.

As an April joke to draw attention to the controversial ACTA agreement, freenode announced on April 1, 2012 that in future all chat content would be stored for a period of five years.

Web links

Commons : Freenode  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resurrecting Tor, continued - freenode. In: freenode.net. Accessed September 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ Supporting the project. freenode, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ [ #python] web chat
  4. ^ History and Growth. freenode, accessed December 18, 2013 .
  5. ↑ http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=freenode&submenu=years
  6. ↑ Jonathan David: Migration to ircd-seven. freenode staffblog, January 26, 2010, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  7. ^ Bye bye PDPC. freenode staffblog, March 19, 2013, accessed May 8, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Freenode has been hijacked. Regular Ramblings, June 24, 2006, accessed April 28, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Jonathan David: Network wide policy privacy change. freenode staffblog, April 1, 2012, accessed May 8, 2016 .