newsreader for puppy Linux

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Dingo · #1 Post by **Dingo** » Mon 07 Jan 2008, 20:32

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

BarryK · #2 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 08 Jan 2008, 00:05

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 · #3 Post by **Dingo** » Tue 08 Jan 2008, 08:19

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 · #4 Post by **Dingo** » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 17:08

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

#5 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 25 Feb 2008, 10:00

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 · #6 Post by **Dingo** » Mon 25 Feb 2008, 10:16

ttuuxxx wrote: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

can manage also nntp (usenet) or only rss feader?

#7 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 25 Feb 2008, 10:46

Dingo wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote: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
can manage also nntp (usenet) or only rss feader?

well this is what i found out, RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, Import Feeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser

I never tried Usenet, I just used it for regular rss feeds.
ttuuxxx

Dingo · #8 Post by **Dingo** » Mon 25 Feb 2008, 20:20

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

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Inte ... t_Clients/

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

joopyhellspawn · #9 Post by **joopyhellspawn** » Wed 12 Mar 2008, 18:11

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 · #10 Post by **Dingo** » Wed 12 Mar 2008, 19:22

joopyhellspawn wrote: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.

you can download Pan here:
http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy ... ewsreaders

joopyhellspawn · #11 Post by **joopyhellspawn** » Wed 12 Mar 2008, 19:34

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 · #12 Post by **hladik** » Mon 25 Aug 2008, 19:54

Dingo wrote:
joopyhellspawn wrote: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.
you can download Pan here:
http://puppylover.netsons.org/dokupuppy ... ewsreaders

So I downloaded Pan after several attempts to find the file. It's in the "programs_index." But I had to kill several videos that popped up, a naked female butt page, and some goofy marketing pitch page which was a bitch to kill. I appreciate the link, but cripes, this is a smudge on the open source community.

#13 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Mon 25 Aug 2008, 20:05

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 · #14 Post by **Dingo** » Mon 25 Aug 2008, 20:48

hladik wrote:So I downloaded Pan after several attempts to find the file. It's in the "programs_index." But I had to kill several videos that popped up, a naked female butt page, and some goofy marketing pitch page which was a bitch to kill. I appreciate the link, but cripes, this is a smudge on the open source community.

sorry. I have modified the link to pointing directly to file

if you install ADBLOCK for Mozilla browser, then you don't seen more anything ads

also, you can put in /etc/hosts, after first lines (make a backup firs of file) like:

Code: Select all

127.0.0.1 localhost puppypc
192.168.1.1 pc2
192.168.1.2 pc3
192.168.1.3 pc4

a mvphost list

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

this will block any malicious or crappy site and prevent its loading in browser

joopyhellspawn · #15 Post by **joopyhellspawn** » Wed 10 Sep 2008, 14:40

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

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