From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 07:44:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19101 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19081 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 07:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA07105; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:44:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id JAA16620; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:44:15 -0500 Message-ID: <19980430094415.34330@right.PCS> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:44:15 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Shawn Halpenny Cc: Sergei Shayevich , William Woods , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: News Readers References: <35474163.9BA06643@cybcon.com> <3547D7F3.E96A593B@bigfoot.com> <19980430094030.A346@sun104.humb.nt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <19980430094030.A346@sun104.humb.nt.com>; from Shawn Halpenny on Apr 04, 1998 at 09:40:30AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 04, 1998 at 09:40:30AM -0400, Shawn Halpenny wrote: > 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. > > > > [ snip ] > > 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. I still prefer trn myself. However, almost any Linux application will also run on FreeBSD, so there isn't anything preventing you from using your current newsreader, unless you _want_ to switch. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message