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.
+ngIRCd 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
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).