X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd-alex.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c903aa10f7f5a5e981c5bf649f10219f945c2d14;hp=f9b366273a8311f7e8211b99c741ade3eea624cb;hb=45d3e6aa91295bee056df8be5c3ed224420fba02;hpb=ab188c148659959060fb7a27ffa00214093ced6f diff --git a/README b/README index f9b36627..c903aa10 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ - (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors. + (c)2001-2013 Alexander Barton and Contributors. ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. @@ -12,12 +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, 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. +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! @@ -44,12 +47,14 @@ 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 @@ -69,7 +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 @@ -83,5 +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: .