ok, yeah yeah i know, its all been said before. but maybe the more its brought up someone will do something about it. Having moved off windows, the only app that i am looking for a replacement for is a newsreader. on windows its newsleecher, on linux.... looks like no one wants to take up the mantle. Pan which had so much promise apears to be dead. and if you want nzb support, you have to run a commandline app. (which i can not get nzbperl to even run on my pc) maybe cuz its amd64.

does anyone have a good solution for news readers on linux? native is best, but i will settle for a good working proggie from xoveroffice or wine. i do not want to have to run windows or vmware to download bins. Then why bother running linux, the object is to GET OFF windows forever! is anyone doing any programing in C# that we could use with mono or something??

What are other LQ members doing for downloading bins from newsgroups. are they happy, satisfied or frustrated with the state of newsreaders in linux? (i know that users that run the CLI proggies are happy, but i am not one of them.)

-g

I use brag to download binaries and it automatically fires off ydecode to decode them.

For instance, in my environment, I like to listen to Howard Stern commercial free. So I have a cron job that fires off at about 2:00pm each day with the following brag command--

These first two args should be self-explanatory. The -a is the 'accept' filter. I am looking for anything with CF in the subject. This is how users of that newsgroup identify that the attached binary is 'commercial free'.

If you want to run it from the command line without any output to your terminal, you can use this syntax--

In my environment, this command runs as root and it deposits the binaries in a subdir of /root/.brag/news-server/

So I have a cron job that follows up later in the day and moves the mp3 files to a web directory where I can access the files...

Periodically, you should clean out the contents of /root/.brag/news-server/alt.binaries.howard_stern/unfinished/ as the partial binaries downloaded to there can fill up your hard drive over time.

Here's where you can get brag -- http://brag.sourceforge.net/jindex.html

Hope this helps,

di11rod