I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?

"BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32896d8ca32dae9b7d7d8@news.digitalmars.com...
>I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?

Thunderbird's alright.  Of course you'll get mozilla anti-fanboys telling you it's awful.

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32896d8ca32dae9b7d7d8@news.digitalmars.com...
>>I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?
> 
> Thunderbird's alright.  Of course you'll get mozilla anti-fanboys telling you it's awful.

Knode works well, either standalone or as a kpart in kontact

Johan Granberg wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 
>> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32896d8ca32dae9b7d7d8@news.digitalmars.com...
>>> I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?
>> Thunderbird's alright.  Of course you'll get mozilla anti-fanboys telling you it's awful.
> 
> Knode works well, either standalone or as a kpart in kontact

I do like KDE, but it's hard to talk about their apps without sounding like you're stuttering. :-)


Sean

>I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup
> reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?

additional question:

which reader lets you select a view in which the threads are sorted by the date of the newest post in them?

erm, windows
and thunderbird really didn't do it for me :)

> additional question:
>
> which reader lets you select a view in which the threads are sorted by the date of the newest post in them?
> 

BCS, el  1 de febrero a las 19:15 me escribiste:
> I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?

I use muttng.

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 19:15:40 +0000 (UTC), BCS wrote:

> I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?

The Opera brower's built-in newsreader.

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/features/

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On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 19:15 +0000, BCS wrote:
> I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?
> 
> 

I'm using Evolution.

Given enough people reply this tread might list all available newsreaders for linux ;)

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Johan Granberg wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 
>> "BCS" <ao@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:55391cb32896d8ca32dae9b7d7d8@news.digitalmars.com...
>>>I have just gotten my laptop booting under Ubuntu and want to throw a newsgroup reader on it so I don't have to rebut under windows just to read the newsgroup. What readers do people use (and like)?
>> 
>> Thunderbird's alright.  Of course you'll get mozilla anti-fanboys telling you it's awful.
> 
> Knode works well, either standalone or as a kpart in kontact

I also use KNode and find it excellent.