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OT : Being a Linux newbie......
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... and a happy one, a couple of questions for the FOAK.
I'm using Pan as a newsreader with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
Is PAN the defacto gruppe reader of choice, or is there something better ?
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This is Unix, of course there is something better/different/weirder. I
never warmed to pan that much - it works OK but I just didn't like it
that much.
I've also tried slrn which works fine and is powerful enough, but
text-mode only if that's a problem for you.
KDE's knode is a full-blown news reader and a pretty good one at that,
does the job very well but I never warmed to KDE on Ubuntu that much -
it seems to be rather slow to start. Nevertheless it does the job very
well and is a decent gooey choice.
That said, I've switched back to using emacs w/ gnus a little while
ago. IMHO it does the job better than either of the above (or pan) if
you're willing to learn how to drive emacs. Not a problem for me, as a
programmer it's one of my favourite tools but a lot of people don't like
the learning curve.
All the above are massively configurable, with the emacs/gnus
combination unsurprisingly taking the biscuit^W^W^Wcoming out top in
that respect. All of them offer per-group configuration which I find
important as I don't really want the UKRM sig to turn up in those groups
I read in a work environment and vice versa.
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As Timo says, a world of choice: I use Pan for text and sometimes for
binaries, but for NZB files klibido (it seems better when I start changing
servers in mid download).
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Why do some people's post headers include a logo - e.g. Ballistic has the
yamaha tuning forks logo ?
1 week and not missing M$ one little bit !
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tin is a good newsreader for the CLI. The headers include an X-Face,
which is a small icon-like wotsit 'encoded' into ASCII, that you can
include in headers. You can create the code here ..
.. but beware, you need a news client that will allow you to add custom
headers.
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Merci beaucoup one and all.
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... and if you eventually find that there are some pieces of software
that you need and can't get a replacement for under Linux, there's
always 'Parallels' so you can
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Pan's great for binaries, does yenc. As I used Thunderbird (which, BTW
thinks that "Thunderbird" is spelt wrong :-) in Windows I also use it in
Ubuntu as well for text based groups.
You might want to look at Little Girl's review (unfinished as yet) of 27
news readers:
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Or VMWare, of course. Or Wine, or ...
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