I am slowly migrating from Windows to Linux, and I am looking for suggestions on what to use as a news reader. �I currently use Forte Agent 5.0 under Windows, and while I can run it under Wine, I would like to try a Linux native news reader. �I am looking for something that is closest to Forte Agent. �By this I mean: * graphical interface (I can always run trn on the command line but prefer a GUI if I can get one) * multiple server support that combines the same newsgroup from each server into one group. �I've seen plenty of news readers where the different servers are not combined. � Can any of the Linux native readers combine the different servers automatically? �This seams to be the big road block I am having, finding a Linux reader that does this. * good filtering capabilities (I probably will have to learn how the new program does it since it will be different from trn and Agent) * threading with kill subthread capability (bonus if this can be done via filtering but not required) * bonus if it can do image preview but not required I know Forte Agent does email as well, I am not worried about that function for what I want to do. The multi-server support, and not just each server kept separate, is my big need for the reader to be able to do. �Everything else is negotiable although a GUI interface is the highest of the non-required items (it is borderline required, but I won't make that the deal breaker if the reader does the other things I need). Thanks Wayne

I currently use Forte Agent 5.0 under Windows, and while I can run it under Wine, I would like to try a Linux native news reader. �I am looking for something that is closest to Forte Agent. Pan is possibly the closest to what you are wanting, but I suggest that you also look at XPN. <http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html If you installed from a common Linux distro e.g. Ubuntu, , OpenSuSE, PCLinuxOS, etc etc... there is a good chance that Pan will already be installed.

If you installed from a common Linux distro e.g. Ubuntu, , OpenSuSE, PCLinuxOS, etc etc... there is a good chance that Pan will already be installed. On openSUSE PAN is not installed by default. Very easy to add by (for 11.1) one of the following ways: 1) Go to http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:11.1/standard/pan.ymp with e.g. Firefox. Follow steps 2) in a terminal `OCICLI http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:11.1/standard/pan.ymp` 3) `zypper in pan` 4) Using YaST ... I was a heavy Agent user (in all meanings of the word heavy) and tried PAN, but I went with slrn in the end, as I can easier use it over ssh as I do now. I use that in combination with leafnode. houghi

I was a heavy Agent user (in all meanings of the word heavy) and tried PAN, but I went with slrn in the end, as I can easier use it over ssh as I do now. I use that in combination with leafnode. houghi I too ended up with slrn plus leafnode; it's probably the most powerful arrangement - although Pan or Gnus or XPN would be comparable in combination with Leafnode. � Pan was originally designed to imitate 'Agent', but it has diverged considerably since. �The 'stable' version 0.14.2 is probably a better choice than the 'beta' 0.132, which is a complete re-write. �Lack of documentation continues to be a defect of Pan, but users are eager to support each other.

Pan was originally designed to imitate 'Agent', but it has diverged considerably since. �The 'stable' version 0.14.2 is probably a better choice than the 'beta' 0.132, which is a complete re-write. �Lack of documentation continues to be a defect of Pan, but users are eager to support each other. I must say that the helpfile in Agent is one of the best if not the best I have ever seen. That was at least the case in the last version I used. Some early 1.x version. Still a pity that they don't port it to Linux (even closed source) houghi

I must say that the helpfile in Agent is one of the best if not the best I have ever seen. That was at least the case in the last version I used. Some early 1.x version. Still a pity that they don't port it to Linux (even closed source) ...true... however... The OP (probably gone but not forgotten ) wanted to discover a Linux GUI app _just like Agent_ to use on his cross-over experience of GUI apps - from that other-than-MS platform... I don't think that there is one (Linux GUI app) at this current point in time, other than perhaps even the current Pan which comes close - there is XPN but maybe XPN is more platform independent than being a strictly Linux GUI app . OTH there are Pan ports to other OS's if you are willing to install Gtk libraries. One could possibly recommend Knode as an alternative Linux GUI news-client, but really... I do think that you actually need to go back in time, wind back the clock to find a GUI app running on Linux that comes close to what Agent had to offer. That app was the *C* version of Pan, vers. 0.14.2. On Linux I do run Xnews under WINE... for fun and because I can... But when Xserving to a Linux server, my preference is to use Pan vers.0.14.2 - it beats the pants off all of the (Linux GUI) competition, even (and lamentably) its own C++ Pan successor , to date. I use Pan 0.14.2 because it can be compiled from source and I *still* run that version. I don't think that it comes included with any distro now other than in its current and newer C++ form. That is; if you try and install Pan from apt or whatever you get pointed toward the latest and greatest version, not some old fuddy-duddy out of date C version of Pan (who cares that it is still superior to what has come after it since, eh?). Stable Pan 0.14.2 still beats Xnews (AFA anything outside of ASCII goes), _BUT_ when it comes to PCRE... Pan is out of the running - not even slrn gets close to what Xnews can do when PCRE is involved (concerning simplicity, ease of use and economy of implementation). No? :-D