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From: Whirled.Peas on 22 Feb 2010 08:54 The Linux Ware Weekly #1 Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various tasks. I've no idea how long this series will run. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably overlook several applications since there are so many different programs written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones. Since these posts appear in a newsgroup, and this is week one, it is fitting to start with news readers. I'll break them down as follows: GUI readers, terminal readers and binary readers / fetchers. I won't be discussing the readers that are incorporated with Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and other such programs. GUI Readers: Pan Homepage: http://pan.rebelbase.com/ Screenshot: http://pan.rebelbase.com/screenshots/screenshot.png License: GPL2 Program footprint (with dependencies): Approximately 5 megabytes Pan is a newsreader that, in many respects, looks and feels similar to Forte's Agent newsreader. It supports multiple servers and concurrent connections to those servers. It uses a rules system to provide flexible filtering and scoring of message threads. It supports downloading and decoding of binary attachments (uu, base64 and yenc). It also features a task manager that allows you to change task priorities on the fly. It has a very active mailing list for support matters. Knode Homepage: http://userbase.kde.org/KNode Screenshot: http://userbase.kde.org/File:Knode_news.png License: GPL Program footprint (with dependencies): Approximately 300 megabytes Knode is the default newsreader for KDE. It is part of the Kontact suite of programs, but still functions as a stand-alone newsreader. Like Pan, it supports scoring and filters and binary newsgroups. It also supports multiple servers. Xpn Homepage: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html Screenshot: http://xpn.altervista.org/images/XPN-front-large.png License: GPL Program footprint (with dependencies): Approximately 1.5 megabytes Xpn is a pygtk based newsreader with a really small footprint. It is still under development and has only recently been able to do off-line news reading. It has good scoring and rules creation abilities. The author of the program is working on his netcode to make article downloads faster. There are others, such as the newsreaders built into the Mahogany Mail (http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/) or Sylpheed mail (http:// sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/) clients, but I'll discuss those when we look at mail clients for Linux Terminal Newsreaders: slrn Homepage: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ Screenshot: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html License: GPL Program footprint (with dependencies): 7 megabytes slrn (S-Lang Read News) is considered by many to be THE newsreader for Linux. It is massively configurable by the user and very well documented online. It supports deep scoring and filtering and also allows for macros for task automation. It has a very large and active community for support. Slrn is a very flexible newsreader, however it is not intended for handling binary newsgroups. Xrn Homepage: http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html Screenshot: http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn/art_mode.htm License: GPL Program footprint (with dependencies): Approximately 5 megabytes Xrn is a text based newsreader that has mouse functionality by default. The only documentation is the cumbersome man page. From the readme file: XRN knows how to do threading, but it doesn't do MIME, e.g., it properly display postings that are formatted in HTML and it doesn't know how to reassemble multipart postings. If you need these features, you should use another News reader. The author of the program acknowledges the lack of documentation. I include it here because it is a very stable little program. There are many, many others out there, from the venerable nn (http:// www.nndev.org/) and tin (http://www.tin.org/) programs to the newer and more powerful Lucy (http://www.geniegate.com/other/lucy/) Binaries reader / fetchers: Hellanzb Homepage: http://hellanzb.com/trac Screenshot: See web page License: BSD Hellanzb is a newzbin (nzb) file downloader. It reads the nzb file, grabs the related bits and pieces of the binary post and assembles / decodes them for the user. It has been forked and reforked so there are any number of interfaces available. It is the most popular nzb handler for Linux, and is thus the only one I am going to mention here. -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Dewey Edwards on 22 Feb 2010 09:23 SOn Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:54:11 +0000 (UTC), "Whirled.Peas" <peas(a)earth.org> wrote: >Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce >Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various >tasks. I've no idea how long this series will run. What an informative and refreshing post. I hope it has a LONG run.
From: KristleBawl on 22 Feb 2010 09:47 Dewey Edwards expressed an opinion: > "Whirled.Peas" wrote: >> Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to >> introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for >> completing their various tasks. I've no idea how long this series >> will run. > > What an informative and refreshing post. I hope it has a LONG run. +1 - Even though I'm addicted to Windows! <g>
From: Craig on 22 Feb 2010 10:04 On 02/22/2010 05:54 AM, Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #1 > > Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly... > > GUI Readers: .... > > Xpn > Homepage: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html Screenshot: > http://xpn.altervista.org/images/XPN-front-large.png License: GPL Program > footprint (with dependencies): Approximately 1.5 megabytes Xpn is a pygtk > based newsreader with a really small footprint. It is still under > development and has only recently been able to do off-line news reading. > It has good scoring and rules creation abilities. The author of the > program is working on his netcode to make article downloads faster. I picked xpn to try about a year ago, as a part of moving to applications that are cross-platform. My needs for nntp readers are pretty simple. That being said, XPN worked well & consistently on the 3 platforms I tested (Win2k, Linux & FreeBSD). Although I went back to TBird's reader, if I were in the market for a standalone nntp (graphical) reader, Xpn would be on the short list. Thx Peas. Like Dewey said: refreshing. -- -Craig
From: Wheel on 22 Feb 2010 10:12 Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #1 > > Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce > Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various > tasks. I've no idea how long this series will run. > > Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are suited to a > certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be exhaustive by any > stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably overlook several > applications since there are so many different programs written for Linux > and forks upon forks of the popular ones. > > Since these posts appear in a newsgroup, and this is week one, it is > fitting to start with news readers. I'll break them down as follows: GUI > readers, terminal readers and binary readers / fetchers. I won't be > discussing the readers that are incorporated with Thunderbird, Seamonkey, > and other such programs. [snipped - program list] Now this will be a useful service to the group; beats the M$Win-Dozy-User bashing, or the LinSux Win-FanBoys. I'll look forward to the continuing series.
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