Troll-FTPd is a nice FTP server coded by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
from Troll Tech. Despite his lack of popularity, it has always been a very
good project, coded with the following requirements in mind :

- No useless bloat,
- No external command calls (source of most security flaws)
- RFC standards conformance,
- Easy to set up,
- User friendly,
- Secure.

The official repository for this piece of software is
ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/ftpd/ .

People who tried Troll-FTPd usually kept it and used it in production
servers for years without any problem. Alternatively, WU-FTPd, ProFTPd,
BeroFTPd and many others have had serious security and reliability issues,
and system administrators had to always watch for patches and new releases
to sleep quietly.

Troll-FTPd was often considered for inclusion in secure distributions, but
the project was no more maintained. Release 1.25 is dated 03/1999 and has
been made with help from Janos Farkas, cmj@localnet.com, August Fullford and
Ximenes Zalteca. Troll-FTPd 1.26 was released two years after, just to fix
minor bugs. Arnt said that there won't be any other release unless he ever
moves to IPv6.

It's why I started to collect various unofficial patches over the internet,
merged them (and it wasn't painless), added my own ones, cleaned up the code,
audited it, repackaged it, rewrote the documentation... and the Pure-FTPd
project was born.

The first released version of Pure-FTPd was labeled 0.90 because I'd like
some margin before 1.00, just to add missing features that prevent people
with moving from other FTP servers. And the documentation needs to be fully
updated before 1.00 . It was based on Troll-FTPd 1.25, and changes from 1.26
were backported.

0.9x versions of Pure-FTPd are stable and they are already widely used on
production servers.


                           -Frank DENIS "Jedi/Sector One" <j@pureftpd.org>
