The `master` branch contains the latest unstable development code. If you are running a server then you probably want to use a v3 release for now. You can obtain this from [the releases page](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases/latest) or by running `git checkout $(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags insp3)` if you are installing from Git.
Alternate platforms and toolchains may also work but are not officially supported by the InspIRCd team. Generally speaking if you are using a reasonably modern UNIX-like system you should be able to build InspIRCd on it.
Most InspIRCd users running a UNIX-like system build from source. A guide about how to do this is available on [the InspIRCd docs site](https://docs.inspircd.org/3/installation/source).
Building from source on Windows is generally not recommended but [a guide is available](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/blob/master/win/README.txt) if you wish to do this.
If you are running on CentOS 7, Debian 10/11/12, Rocky Linux 8, Ubuntu 18.04/20.04/22.04, or Windows 8+ binary packages are available from [the downloads page](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases/latest).
A [Docker](https://www.docker.com) image is also available. See [the inspircd-docker repository](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd-docker) for more information.
Some distributions ship an InspIRCd package in their package managers. We generally do not recommend the use of such packages as in the past distributions have made broken modifications to InspIRCd and not kept their packages up to date with essential security updates.
