- ngIRCd has been tested with various Linux distributions, such as SuSE,
- RedHat, Debian, and Gentoo using Kernels 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x with
- various versions of the GNU C compiler (starting with 2.95.x and up to
- version 4.3.x). The eldest glibc used was glibc-2.0.7. ngIRCd compiled
- and run on all these systems without problems.
- Actual Linux kernels (2.6.x) and glibc's support the epoll() IO interface.
-
-(2) This compiler is an pre-ANSI C compiler, therefore the source code is
+ ngIRCd has been tested with various Linux distributions, such as ArchLinux,
+ Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat (Fedora) and SuSE using Linux kernels 2.2.x, 2.4.x,
+ 2.6.x, 3.x, and 4.x, with various versions of the GNU C compiler (starting
+ with 2.95.x) and Clang. The eldest glibc used was glibc-2.0.7.
+ ngIRCd compiled and ran on all of these systems successfully.
+ Current Linux kernels (starting with 2.6.x) and glibc's support the more
+ efficient epoll() IO interface, see (5) below.
+
+(2) This compiler is a pre-ANSI C compiler (K&R), therefore the source code is