ngIRCd Release 27

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        ngIRCd
 </h2>
 <p>
-       ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server
+       ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat
+       (<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" hreflang="en">IRC</a>)
+       server
        for small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public
        License
        (<a href="doc/COPYING" hreflang="en">GPL</a>).
-       It is easy to configure, can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and
-       supports IPv6, SSL-protected connections as well as PAM for
-       authentication. It is written from scratch and not based on the
-       original IRCd.
 </p>
 <p>
-       The name <em>ngIRCd</em> means <em>next generation IRC daemon</em>,
+       The server is quite easy to configure and runs as a single-node server
+       or can be part of a network of ngIRCd servers in a LAN or across the
+       internet. It optionally supports the IPv6 protocol, SSL/TLS-protected
+       client-server and server-server links, the Pluggable Authentication
+       Modules (PAM) system for user authentication, IDENT requests, and
+       character set conversion for legacy clients.
+</p>
+<p>
+       The name <em>ngIRCd</em> stands for <em>next-generation IRC daemon</em>,
        which is a little bit exaggerated: <em>lightweight Internet Relay Chat
        server</em> most probably would have been a better name :-)
 </p>
 <h2 id="why">
-       Advantages
+       Advantages and strengths
 </h2>
-<p>
-       Why you should be using ngIRCd? For these and other reasons:
-</p>
 <ul>
        <li>
-               well arranged (lean) configuration file
+               Well arranged (lean) configuration file.
+       </li>
+       <li>
+               Simple to build, install, configure, and maintain.
+       </li>
+       <li>
+               Supports IPv6 and SSL.
+       </li>
+       <li>
+               Can use PAM for user authentication.
        </li>
        <li>
-               simple to build/install, configure and maintain
+               Lots of popular user and channel modes are implemented.
        </li>
        <li>
-               supports IPv6 and SSL
+               Supports "cloaking" of users.
        </li>
        <li>
-               no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
+               No problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses.
        </li>
        <li>
-               freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
+               Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source.
        </li>
        <li>
-               ngIRCd is being actively developed since
-               <?php echo date("Y")-2001 ?> years
+               Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX,
+               FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
+               and Windows with WSL or Cygwin.
+       </li>
+       <li>
+               ngIRCd has been in development for
+               <?php echo date("Y")-2001 ?> years.
        </li>
 </ul>
 <div id="preview">
@@ -57,18 +74,13 @@
        Simplicity
 </h2>
 <p>
-       ngIRCd supports
-       <a href="doc/Platforms.txt">a whole range</a>
-       of platforms: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, but
-       ngIRCd also runs on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other Unices.
-</p>
-<p>
-       After the installation of ngIRCd, which is executed via packet
-       installation or configure-make-make-install, and once you have edited
-       the ngircd.conf, you can get started after 5 minutes&nbsp;– only a
-       few lines need adapting, the rest is purely optional.
+       After installing ngIRCd (which is best done with the package manager of
+       the operating system or directly from the source code, see
+       <a href="doc/INSTALL">INSTALL.md</a>) and adjusting the configuration
+       in the <code>ngircd.conf</code> file, the IRC server can be ready for
+       use after just 5 minutes&nbsp;- only a few lines need to be changed
+       there, the rest is optional and can be used with the default values.
 </p>
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