Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:40:30 -0400 From: Shawn Halpenny <malachai@iname.com> To: Sergei Shayevich <serega@bigfoot.com>, William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: News Readers Message-ID: <19980430094030.A346@sun104.humb.nt.com> In-Reply-To: <3547D7F3.E96A593B@bigfoot.com> References: <35474163.9BA06643@cybcon.com> <3547D7F3.E96A593B@bigfoot.com>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:46:27PM -0400, Sergei Shayevich wrote: > William Woods wrote: > > > I just switched from linux to FreeBSD and in linux I was useing > > NewsPeruser (a X newsreader) and was wondering what is avaliable for > > FreeBSD? > > There's a number of news readers available. > inn > rn > trn > nn > tin > xrn > > Some of them come with the distributions, some you need to download the > source and compile or maybe install packages. I would suggest using > Netscape Communicator's news reader module. Supports threads, graphics, > and is easy to operate. > > G. luck, > > Sergei I've used Knews to read news under X and it was rather nice. If you're happy enough with running a text-based reader, consider slrn--has color too. Both of them do threads and are also easy to operate. There are ports for both of them: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/news.html . -- Shawn Halpenny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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