OT : Being a Linux newbie......

.... 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 ?

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 !

 

It's an X-Face.

 

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.

.... 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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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).

Or VMWare, of course. Or Wine, or ...

 

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 ..

http://www.dairiki.org/xface/

... but beware, you need a news client that will allow you to add custom
headers.

D.

 

Merci beaucoup one and all.

 

Il n'y a pas de souci.

D.