Opinion based review; Unrealircd or nefarious

Sindacious · Posted: Sep 17, 2008 4:43am Post subject:

I'm not going to go into any specifics, but I personally like Nefarious/X3 over Anope/UnrealIRCd, main reason being is I don't really believe in people being 'over powered' on a network, and some people, specially some unreal/anope users, make themselves 'gods' on their network ( I hate os superadmin Neutral

). I like Nefarious/X3 because X3 is well, different then more popular services, for example, Anope, Atheme. I can't quite explain Mad

As for the IRCd's, as I stated above, not liking opers having too much power over the users/channels, I like it when they have limited power, but can still 'enforce' if needed (Think of EFNet?). With unreal, it has things such as override, etc, where Nefarious doesn't have that (I don't think Mad

), they have the power they need to enforce the network.

oh, and +qa prefixes ftl Razz

Casperrr · Posted: Sep 17, 2008 7:56am Post subject:

stephen4x · Posted: Sep 17, 2008 9:47am Post subject:

Agreed, this comes down once again to PEOPLE and not the software in question. If you must talk of abusing power etc..those people should never get an oline to start with (or probably wont keep it long!). Superadmin can be unset, and Unreal compiled without override. I think people get too hung up on the setup at times, and not the content / ethos / aims of the Network. As Sly said "all these things are toys..". Just wanted to shoehorn that in!

Sindacious · Posted: Sep 17, 2008 1:31pm Post subject:

TechN9ne · none Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 19 Location: nerd

Charybdis+atheme ftw!

katsklaw · Posted: Oct 09, 2008 4:42pm Post subject:

While most networks I visit use Unreal/Anope I personally prefer Nefarious/X3.

Nef/X3 offers FAR more power than Unreal/Anope. It's a bit rough at first and can be a bit difficult to grasp in the beginning because of it's dynamic abilities. However, X3 can do things that Anope can not, even with modules. Unreal grants more power to opers than Nef, however most of the power Nef lacks is not really needed anyway unless you are an un experienced oper. Anope just simply can't keep up with X3. So sorry, the truth hurts sometimes.

I've also found that with Nef and X3 combined that you have more refined control (not more generic control) over things IRC related.

TwinShadow · none Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Texas

Ahh... again with these. Eh, I'm not complaining or anything, but these topics are fun to read sometimes.

Unreal/Anope isn't.. too bad of a combo since one server I hang about on uses that combo, and while I can't say I prefer Unreal, it's not that bad of an IRCd. (I just hate the config file personally speaking, don't like how the stuff is situated in bind { } blocks)

I use InspIRCd/Anope for the server I run with a friend of mine. All networks have a specific need that they would like to achieve, and while some services won't work, some just might be better. I don't down on other IRCd's, mainly since I haven't/can't use(d) for various reasons.

Far as Nefarious/X3 goes, can't really say. I've only vaguely heard of it, and have yet to see a server use 'em. So, I honestly wouldn't be able to say anything about it.

Everyone has their needs, they should pick what they think is best for their network. If starting out, take about 2 weeks or so to test the different IRCd's and services before you set on specific setups.