Doesn't Linux have a decent usenet reader?

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Sat Aug 12 09:44:27 UTC 2006


ruscook wrote:
> Marc does Gravity run under Wine? If so that would save the boot into 
> windows and you get the app/UI you want to run.

In his sig was this:

"... there is nothing that remotely touches Gravity in Linux. And no,
it doesn't run under Wine, ..."

So apparently not :|

> 
> Evolution supposedly does news as well. I don't subscribe to any lists 
> any more so don't know how well. I assume if you don't mind evolutions 
> UI (which I don't, particularly the bleeding edge 2.7.91 version) then 
> this may also be a solution.
> 
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 22:10 +0100, marc wrote:
>>  Is there a Linux newsreader that approaches anything that Windows had 
>> in the 90s?
>>
>> :-) Yeah, I know I'm being inflammatory, but this single issue pains me 
>> to the core.
>>
>> -- 
>> Best,
>> Marc
>>
>> P.S. As my headers will show, I revert to Windows for Usenet and use 
>> Gravity. Twice a day I boot into XP for my dose of Usenet updates, 
>> because there is nothing that remotely touches Gravity in Linux. And no, 
>> it doesn't run under Wine, but that's not a solution either.
>>
>>
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