X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=1ea96ef4157393dd717c4135ed1a3a67c2199067;hb=4bff3daf92f59c61cb43995118875a33580b81e3;hp=53b4205da487a72e15f30467c635030c8a180ff1;hpb=5eb9f2e7172620874d5ad4c247b82fc2aee3ac1b;p=ngircd-alex.git diff --git a/README b/README index 53b4205d..1ea96ef4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ I. Introduction ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public -Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next -generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the -"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet. +Licence, see the file COPYING for details. ngIRCd means "next generation +IRC daemon" (which is a little bit exaggerated, "lightweight Internet Relay +Chat server" would be better), it's written from scratch and not deduced +from the "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet. Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information! @@ -43,12 +44,14 @@ WHOIS, WHOWAS. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses -- simple, easy understandable configuration file, -- freely published open-source C source code, -- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future. +- well arranged (lean) configuration file +- simple to build/install, configure and maintain +- supports IPv6 and SSL +- no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses +- freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin. +- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001. IV. Documentation