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@@ -8,25 +8,26 @@ All of them have these potentially interesting properties:
  - SSL/TLS support, including client certificates
  - minimal dependencies
  - very compact and easy to hack on
+ - liberal license
 
 degesch
 -------
-The IRC client.  I thought it would be interesting to build an IRC client on
-top of libreadline.  At least it's way simpler than doing it in ncurses.
-The interface should feel familiar for weechat users.
+The IRC client.  It is largely defined by being built on top of GNU Readline.
+Its interface should however feel familiar for weechat or irssi users.
 
-It's the youngest and largest of them all and currently under heavy development.
+This is the youngest and largest application within the project and it's
+currently under development.
+
+It has most of the stuff you'd expect of an IRC client, such as being able to
+set up multiple servers, powerful configuration system, integrated help,
+mIRC text formatting, CTCP queries, automatic splitting of overlong messages,
+autocomplete, file logging, and command aliases.
 
 kike
 ----
-The IRC daemon.  It mostly follows RFCs but it can't form networks consisting
-of multiple servers, or use any services packages, such as Atheme.  (Mostly due
-to the protocol being incredibly ugly and tricky to implement correctly, with
-the poor quality of the RFCs not helping much).  It is designed to be used as
-a regular user application rather than a system daemon.
-
-It is complete enough to be useful but doesn't support online configuration
-changes or limits of almost any kind yet.
+The IRC daemon.  It is designed to be used as a regular user application rather
+than a system-wide daemon.  If all you want is a decent, minimal IRCd for
+a small network of respectful users (or bots), or testing, this one will do it.
 
 Notable features:
  - SSL/TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?)
@@ -34,6 +35,12 @@ Notable features:
  - epoll support on Linux; it should be able to handle quite a number of users
  - partial IRCv3 support
 
+Not supported:
+ - server linking (which also means no services); I consider existing protocols
+   for this purpose ugly and tricky to implement correctly
+ - online changes to configuration; the config system from degesch could be used
+ - limits of almost any kind, just connections and mode +l
+
 ZyklonB
 -------
 The IRC bot.  It builds upon the concept of my other VitaminA IRC bot.  The main
@@ -42,7 +49,8 @@ allows for enhanced reliability and programming language freedom.
 
 While originally intended to be a simple C99 rewrite of the original bot, which
 was written in the GNU dialect of AWK, it fairly quickly became a playground
-where I added everything that seemed nice.
+where I added everything that seemed nice, and it eventually got me into writing
+the rest of this package.
 
 Notable features:
  - resilient against crashes, server disconnects and timeouts
@@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with
 
 Running
 -------
-`degesch' has in-program configuration.  Just run it and type "/help".
+`degesch' has in-program configuration.  Just run it and read the instructions.
 
 For the rest you might want to generate a configuration file:
  $ zyklonb --write-default-config
@@ -87,8 +95,11 @@ doing that), simply run the appropriate program with no arguments:
  $ kike
 
 `ZyklonB' stays running in the foreground, therefore I recommend launching it
-inside a Screen or tmux session.  `kike', on the other hand, immediately forks
-into the background.  Use something like `killall' if you want to terminate it.
+inside a Screen or tmux session.
+
+`kike', on the other hand, immediately forks into the background.  Use the PID
+file or something like `killall' if you want to terminate it.  You can run it
+as a `forking' type systemd user service.
 
 Client Certificates
 -------------------