-* Quick start guide:
-0) make sure you read the INSTALL file.
-1) start the deamon in background as root: avahi-daemon -D
-Or (You shouldn't start avahi-daemon and avahi-discover at the same time.)
-1) start the Gui to browse zeroconf network as your user: avahi-discover
+Avahi is a free, LGPL mDNS/DNS-SD implementation.
+Copyright 2004-2006 by the Avahi developers.
-* Basic instructions to control the avahi deamon (as root):
-- starting it: avahi-daemon
-- starting it in background: avahi-daemon -D
-- stopping it: avahi-daemon -k
+ http://avahi.org/
+
+Avahi has a mailing list:
+
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
+
+You have a chance to meet the developers on
+
+ #avahi on irc.freenode.org
+
+Please report bugs to the freedesktop.org bugzilla:
+
+ http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
+
+Avahi's SVN repository is freely accessible:
+
+ svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/avahi/trunk avahi
+
+ http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=avahi
+
+Avahi has the following requirements:
+ - glib2
+ - expat
+ - libdaemon (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/)
+ - Linux 2.4 or 2.6
+ - DBUS 0.3x (optional, if you disable this, the daemon is not
+ accessible over IPC to other applications!)
+ - gtk2 + glade (optional, needed for avahi-discover-standalone)
+ - doxygen (optional, needed for he API documentaton)
+ - Python 2.4, pygtk2 (optional, needed by all client tools)
+ - python-twisted (optional, needed by avahi-bookmarks)
+ - xmltoman (if building from SVN rather than a tarball)
+ If you are not using debian or ubuntu, the upstream authors page has
+ disappeared, but you can get the source from debian here
+ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xmltoman/xmltoman_0.3.orig.tar.gz
+
+Please make sure to read the currently available documentation for avahi before
+asking for support on the mailing list:
+
+ - INSTALL
+ - Man pages
+ - Homepage http://avahi.org/
+ - Mailing list archive http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/
+
+
+$Id$