ngIRCd
</h2>
<p>
- ngIRCd is a free open source server for Internet Relay Chat (IRC),
- which is being developed under the GNU General Public License
+ ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat
+ (<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" hreflang="en">IRC</a>)
+ server
+ for small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public
+ License
(<a href="doc/COPYING" hreflang="en">GPL</a>).
- It has been written from scratch and is consequently, unlike most
- other IRC daemons, not based on the originator, the daemon of the
- IRCNet.
</p>
<p>
- The name <em>ngIRCd</em> means <em>next generation IRC daemon</em>,
- which is a little bit exaggerated: <em>lightweight Internet Relay Chat
- server</em> most probably would be a better name :-)
+ The server is quite easy to configure and runs as a single-node server
+ or can be part of a network of ngIRCd servers in a LAN or across the
+ internet. It optionally supports the IPv6 protocol, SSL/TLS-protected
+ client-server and server-server links, the Pluggable Authentication
+ Modules (PAM) system for user authentication, IDENT requests, and
+ character set conversion for legacy clients.
</p>
-<p class="hint">
- <em>Hint:</em>
- at freshmeat.net there's an
- <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/ngircd/">entry</a>
- for the ngIRCd project. You can inform about new releases and get
- update notifications via E-Mail.
+<p>
+ The name <em>ngIRCd</em> stands for <em>next-generation IRC daemon</em>,
+ which is a little bit exaggerated: <em>lightweight Internet Relay Chat
+ server</em> most probably would have been a better name :-)
</p>
<h2 id="why">
- Advantages
+ Advantages and strengths
</h2>
-<p>
- Why you should be using ngIRCd? For these and other reasons:
-</p>
<ul>
<li>
- well arranged (lean) configuration file
+ Well arranged (lean) configuration file.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Simple to build, install, configure, and maintain.
</li>
<li>
- simple to build/install, configure and maintain
+ Supports IPv6 and SSL.
</li>
<li>
- supports IPv6 and SSL
+ Can use PAM for user authentication.
</li>
<li>
- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
+ Lots of popular user and channel modes are implemented.
</li>
<li>
- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
+ Supports "cloaking" of users.
</li>
<li>
- ngIRCd is being actively developed since
+ No problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX,
+ FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
+ and Windows with WSL or Cygwin.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ ngIRCd has been in development for
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</li>
</ul>
<div id="preview">
- <code><a id="v_toggle" href="#" name="v_toggle">ngircd --help</a></code><br>
+ <code><a id="v_toggle" href="#">ngircd --help</a></code><br>
<div id="vertical_slide">
- <samp>ngircd 19.2-SYSLOG+ZLIB+SSL+TCPWRAP+IDENT+PAM+IRCPLUS+IPv6-x86_64/unknown/linux-gnu
-Copyright (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton (<alex@barton.de>) and Contributors.
-Homepage: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>
-
-This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
-warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- -f, --config <f> use file <f> as configuration file
- -n, --nodaemon don't fork and don't detach from controlling terminal
- -p, --passive disable automatic connections to other servers
- -t, --configtest read, validate and display configuration; then exit
- -V, --version output version information and exit
- -h, --help display this help and exit</samp>
+ <samp><?php include 'common/help.inc' ?></samp>
</div>
</div>
<h2>
Simplicity
</h2>
<p>
- ngIRCd supports
- <a href="doc/Platforms.txt">a whole range</a>
- of platforms: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, but
- ngIRCD also runs on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other Unices.
-</p>
-<p>
- After the installation of ngIRC, which is executed via packet
- installation or configure-make-make-install, and once you have edited
- the ngircd.conf, you can get started after 5 minutes. – only a
- few lines need adapting, the rest is purely optional.
+ After installing ngIRCd (which is best done with the package manager of
+ the operating system or directly from the source code, see
+ <a href="doc/INSTALL">INSTALL.md</a>) and adjusting the configuration
+ in the <code>ngircd.conf</code> file, the IRC server can be ready for
+ use after just 5 minutes - only a few lines need to be changed
+ there, the rest is optional and can be used with the default values.
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