-.B ngircd
-is a portable IRC daemon written from scratch. It is easy to configure,
-supports server links (even with original ircds) and runs on hosts with
-changing IP addresses (such as dial-in networks). Currently supported
-platforms are A/UX, Darwin/Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and Windows
-with Cygwin.
+.BR ngIRCd
+is a free open source daemon for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC),
+developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
+.PP
+It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like
+many others. It is easy to configure, supports server links (even with
+original ircd's) and runs on hosts with changing IP addresses (such as
+dial-in networks).
+.PP
+Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
+Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
+.PP
+As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
+there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
+systems as well.