X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4bcafb2ffbdf92048719850a4ad03014b169e82d;hp=3c39cad1a19f18bffd1a6bae0496c781bc570337;hb=6685ae063f4e7dd75346cf50cff84c8c109e2d6b;hpb=6d11fb149707194e986b0d64af3d44f21e158fcc diff --git a/README b/README index 3c39cad1..4bcafb2f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2011 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2014 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. @@ -12,11 +12,15 @@ 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. +ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for +small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License +(GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It 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 name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit +exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a +better name :-) Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information! @@ -33,22 +37,24 @@ used in real IRC networks. Implemented IRC-commands are: -ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INFO, INVITE, -ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, -NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, -SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, -USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS. - +ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO, +INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, +NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, +REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, +TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, +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 +74,7 @@ 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 +88,6 @@ 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: .