From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 06:41:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11120 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aslan.dos.nortel.com (aslan.dos.nortel.com [192.7.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11103 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsh@dos.nortel.com) Received: from sunsrvr6.humb.nt.com (fireside.dos.nortel.com [192.7.1.10]) by aslan.dos.nortel.com (8.8.5/NORTEL-DOS1.0) with SMTP id JAA25465 ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:46:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sun104.humb.nt.com by sunsrvr6.humb.nt.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) for questions@freebsd.org; id AA28469; Thu, 30 Apr 98 09:40:31 EDT Received: by sun104.humb.nt.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00358; Thu, 30 Apr 98 09:40:31 EDT Message-Id: <19980430094030.A346@sun104.humb.nt.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:40:30 -0400 From: Shawn Halpenny To: Sergei Shayevich , William Woods Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: News Readers References: <35474163.9BA06643@cybcon.com> <3547D7F3.E96A593B@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <3547D7F3.E96A593B@bigfoot.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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