Re: xnews/hamster in debian-sarge?
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:52:20 +0100
On 2005-10-16, Ed <apostle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm moving from a windoze only to a dual boot with debian-sarge and would
> appreciate input on newsreader choices.
>
> In windoze I'm using hamster to pull newsgroups from five newsservers, and
> then xnews to read the combined feed.
>
> So far I've messed around with knode some, but somehow it seems more than a
> little sluggish compared to xnews. Not only that, but it doesn't appear to
> save message bodies which xnews has no problem keeping 'em for 10days
> before purging.
>
> Would xnews & hamster be usable in linux (under wine) at all or is there a
> better, more xnews-like, native linux choice?
>
> Thanks
Xnews+Hamster kept me in Windows for a long time. I have heard of people
getting them to work in 'wine', but although I could get Xnews to more or
less run, it was very unsatisfactory and incomplete.
Native newsreaders that seem to appeal to 'advanced' Linux usenetters, are
Pan (graphical, has both on-line and off-line modes), slrn (text-based,
on-line only, highly configurable) and Gnus (text-based, part of Emacs).
Tin and Pine also have enthusiastic users (also text-based).
I've never managed to get it running in Mandrake (now Mandriva), but
Newsstar in combination with s-news or sn looks like a possible equivalent
for Hamster. There is a .deb Newsstar package at Sourceforge.
Leafnode is a much simpler 'local caching NNTP server' than Hamster, and
slower - it connects to only one server at a time, and makes only one
connection to that server, so it can work well over a slow dial-up.
Nevertheless, it is popular. It has its own 'killfile'. It is configured
manually using a config file, and runs from the command line.
Slrn has a companion program, slrnpull, to give it 'off-line' features (or
you can use it with any local NNTP server).
I have settled on slrn as my favourite newsreader, currently in combination
with leafnode. There is a very steep learning-curve converting from Xnews
and Hamster, but worth persevering in my opinion. When you 'get the hang
of it' slrn is if anything faster and more powerful than Xnews, at least
for text groups.
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