X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=2e19d831deac91663730963afba874b0f52dd736;hp=53b4205da487a72e15f30467c635030c8a180ff1;hb=9882e578e9cbb9d86d235b45938fa57bf1e85e54;hpb=5eb9f2e7172620874d5ad4c247b82fc2aee3ac1b diff --git a/README b/README index 53b4205d..2e19d831 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 @@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ releases there. If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control -system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git.or.cz/). +system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/). VI. Bugs @@ -82,5 +85,6 @@ them at the following URL: There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too. If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a -mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see - for details). +mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see + for details) or join the ngIRCd +IRC channel: .