General Public License ([GPL]); please see the file `COPYING` for licensing
information.
-The server is simple to configure, can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and
-supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is written from scratch and not based on the
-original IRCd.
+The server is quite easy to configure, can handle dynamic IP addresses, and
+optionally supports IDENT, IPv6 connections, SSL-protected links, and PAM for
+user authentication as well as character set conversion for legacy clients. The
+server has been written from scratch and is not based on the "forefather", the
+daemon of the IRCNet.
-The name ngIRCd means *next generation IRC daemon*, which is a little bit
+The name ngIRCd means *next-generation IRC daemon*, which is a little bit
exaggerated: *lightweight Internet Relay Chat server* most probably would have
been a better name :-)
## Status
-ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be used as daemon in
-real world IRC networks.
+The development of ngIRCd started back in 2001 and in the meantime it should be
+quite feature-complete and stable to be used as a daemon in real-world IRC
+networks.
It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the
original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
- Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source.
- Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
IRIX, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
-- ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
## Documentation
The **homepage** of the ngIRCd project is <https://ngircd.barton.de>.
+Installation on ngIRCd is described in the file `INSTALL.md` in the source
+directory; please see the file `doc/QuickStart.md` in the `doc/` directory for
+some configuration examples.
+
More documentation can be found in the `doc/` directory and
[online](https://ngircd.barton.de/documentation).
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