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News software allows you to sign onto Usenet Newsgroups and communicate with others, trade files, and get answers to about any question you may have.

asNews

• Version: Stable 0.5.3
• Byte Size:  174.1 KB (178,271 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2075/new/asNews.html
• Binary: Debian, RPM PPC
• Description: asNews is a simple news retrieving and parsing program, which gets the news from the net and gives it back to you, showing it in your desktop. asNews is currently able to fetch the news from Freshmeat, LinuxToday, Slashdot, Segfault, KDE, LinuxApps, BBC, CentralEurope and 7AM, and puts it in your AfterStep (or KDE) start menu
  

News Peruser

• Version: Stable 5.0 alpha 3
• Byte Size:  77.9 KB (79,746 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 4, 2000
• Home Page: http://peruser.netpedia.net
• Binary: RPM
• Description: News Peruser is a freely distributable, X11-based, offline newsreader, intended for use by single-user GNU Linux systems, with on-demand network access.
  

NewsRunner

• Version: Stable 1.4
• Byte Size:  1.9 MB (2,003,327 bytes)
• License: Freeware
• Revision Date: February 21th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.canit.se/~dino/route9/newsrunner/
• Note: Also Available: Libc5
• Description: NewsRunner is a program that connects to a newsserver and downloads all uuencoded and Mime-encoded files it can find (pictures/mp3s/whatever) and stores them in a directory of your choice. It runs on Linux and utilizes lesstif and ImLib to provide an easy interface and a nice look.
  

NewsX

• Version: Stable 1.4
• Byte Size:  251.6 KB (257,609 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 7, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.kvaleberg.com/newsx.html
• Binary: RPM Source
• Description: This program will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing articles batched by the news system, as well as fetch incoming articles. It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news spools on installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts.
  

PicMonger

• Version: Stable 0.9.0
• Byte Size:  130.2 KB (133,296 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 19th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.SourceForge.net/project/?group_id=3509
• Description: PicMonger is an automated Usenet News (NNTP) client that identifies both UUEncoded and MIME base64 encoded files and decodes them back to the original binary. Files can be screened by type (if you want, say, only JPEG and MP3 files), thumbnailed HTML image previews can be generated, and your position in each newsgroup is remembered between sessions.
  

Skate News

• Version: Stable b-0.5
• Byte Size:  1.9 MB (2,006,840 bytes)
• License: Freeware
• Revision Date: August 17, 1999
• Home Page: http://members.xoom.com/apostle1/
• Additional Software Required: JDK
• Note: Additional Software: Full Runtime (includes the java runtime environment and all Skate files including the mail and news clients.)
• Description: SkateNews is a simple threaded news reader written in java. It features a slick intuitive interface. Document save, print etc. Requires blackdown jre 1.1.x or newer (or jdk1.1.x or newer)
  

Slashdot Reader

• Version: Stable 1.22
• Byte Size:  18.2 KB (18,590 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://pike-community.org/sites/slashdot/
• Additional Software Required: gtk+, PiGTK
• Description: A program for reading Slashdot articles and their comments without a using a web browser. It started out as another headline reader, but has expanded since then. Now you can both read and reply to comments.
  

TkHeadlines

• Version: Development 0.80
• Byte Size:  88.5 KB (90,576 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 23, 1999
• Home Page: http://members.home.net/younie/tkheadlines/tkheadlines.html
• Binary: Debian
• Description: TkHeadlines is a headline viewer for some news and software sites. It keeps track of what headlines you've already seen. You can click on the headlines that are displayed to bring them up in Netscape.
  

TT-News

• Version: Stable 1.0.0
• Byte Size:  86.7 KB (88,781 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 26, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.student.lu.se/~etn97ksi/sim_home/index.html
• Description: TT-News is a headline news ticker that displays articles as well as headlines. It is themable with skins, and can fetch news from different sites such as BBC News, Slashdot, Freshmeat, Heise.de and more. "Feeders" for other news-sources are quite easy to write, with the supplied framework for feeders.
  

WMLinuxToday

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  10.0 KB (10,191 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 3, 1999
• Home Page: http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/
• Binary: Noarch Alpha
• Additional Software Required: WindowMaker
• Description: This is the LinuxToday WMHeadlines program. WMHeadlines is a little project to integrate web news sites with the Window Maker root menu.
  

WMMattsHouse

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  10.0 KB (10,209 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/
• Binary: Noarch
• Additional Software Required: WindowMaker
• Description: This is the WMMattsHouse (a good general source for Linux Information) WMHeadlines program. WMHeadlines is a little project to integrate web news sites with the Window Maker root menu.
  

WMSegFault

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  10.0 KB (10,203 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/
• Binary: Noarch
• Additional Software Required: WindowMaker
• Description: This is the SegFault.org WMHeadlines program. WMHeadlines is a little project to integrate web news sites with the Window Maker root menu.
  

WMSlashDot

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  9.9 KB (10,186 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://rive.boxybutgood.com/WMHeadlines/
• Binary: Generic
• Additional Software Required: WindowMaker
• Description: This is the Slashdot WMHeadlines program. WMHeadlines is a little project to integrate web news sites with the Window Maker root menu.
  

XRN

• Version: Development 9.02 beta3
• Byte Size:  352.5 KB (361,001 bytes)
• License: BSD
• Revision Date: January 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html
• Binary: RPM
• Description: XRN is a program for reading News via NNTP. As of XRN version 9.00, article threading is supported. XRN warns the user when he is composing a follow-up which will be posted to multiple newsgroups (i.e., cross-posted) and can be configured to completely prohibit postings to more than a specified number of newsgroups. It has numerous features for utilizing bandwidth more efficiently when communicating with the server over a slow network connection and can scan for new articles in the background while you are reading News. XRN also has support for multi-lingual messages, button labels, etc. Currently, only German is supported, but other languages can be added.
  

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