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 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR ngIRCd
-is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small
+is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server for small
 or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
 .PP
-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 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.
 .PP
-The name ngIRCd means
+The name ngIRCd stands for
 .IR "next-generation IRC daemon",
 which is a little bit exaggerated:
 .IR "lightweight Internet Relay Chat server"
 most probably would have been a better name :-)
 .PP
-Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Hurd, IRIX,
-Linux, macOS, Minix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
-As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
-there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
-systems as well.
-.PP
 By default ngIRCd logs diagnostic and informational messages using the syslog
 mechanism, or writes directly to the console when running in the foreground
 (see below).