Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Dingo · Last edited by Dingo on Wed 20 Feb 2008, 13:19; edited 1 time in total

Woof Woff to all!

Currently I'm using Pan a newsreader on puppy Linux (I think is not the best for me). What newsreader you use? what others are working in Puppy Linux? They are some newsreaders already packed (dotpup or pet packages)?

thanks for any help Wink

BarryK · Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2008, 20:05 Post subject:

The 'standard' puppies have SeaMonkey, which has a newsreader.
Dingo has a cutdown SeaMonkey wihout the email/news module, and Sylpheed is used instead.

I'm not into reading newsgroups these days, and don't know how SeaMonkey and Sylpheed newsgroup readers compare.

Dingo · Posted: Tue 08 Jan 2008, 04:19 Post subject:

Thanks Barry. I have already Tried Sylpheed but I remember some problems on my Puppy 3.01 and Seamonkey Newsreader and Thunderbird have very basic newsgroup features, so, i will try other newsreader and if I will be able to package in dotpup or petget, I will make a puppy package also

Currently, I think in next days to try install Pan waxed in black, latest version of Pan supporting X-faces

Dingo · Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2008, 13:08 Post subject:

today I have found a newsreader

*xrn*
- ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/xrn/xrn-linux.tgz

converted to .pet with

tgz2pet

but it seems not working on puppy 3.01. can someone explain this? when I type in console:

xrn or xrn-linux, only a laconic not found is showed. being a newbie, maybe I have do something wrong

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 06:00 Post subject:

The best news reader for puppy is "RSSOWL" its easy to configure to use your default browser, the GUI is excellent, hands down its the only way to go.
The only thing you need to get it running is JAVA. works fine with my firefox/flash/java pet package. http://www.rssowl.org/
ttuuxxx

Dingo · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 06:16 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 06:46 Post subject:

Dingo · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 16:20 Post subject:

it seems not to be an usenet newsreader. I have found this list of newsreader:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Internet/News/Usenet_Clients/

I hope some of these may be ported on puppy linux that don't have newsreader with x-face support for now

joopyhellspawn · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 41

Hey Dingo, Pan has been the best Newsreader I have ever found to use in linux, for me at least. I haven't been able to get it in Puppy yet, could you tell me how you got it installed please.

Dingo · Posted: Wed 12 Mar 2008, 15:22 Post subject:

joopyhellspawn · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 41

btw, in the past I have preferred to run Agent 4 using wine, I haven't yet tried to install that yet on Puppy, but I did manage to get Pan installed and am trying it out now. Working fine so far. Thanks for the link.

hladik · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 49

Béèm · Posted: Mon 25 Aug 2008, 16:05 Post subject:

When I did run KDE in puppy, I used Knode.
I also used SeaMonkey mail/news.
The most configurable and feature rich one is MesNews, but it's a Windows program.
Some did succeed to run it in Wine, but it's kinda pain.
People are still refining the way of installing it.
I may report later about this.

Dingo

joopyhellspawn · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 41

Just a followup: I skipped the middle step of using Pan and have installed and running Agent using Wine. Works fine.