Usenet client for linux

**cimithan** · 12-19-2008, 02:58 AM

alt.bin work fine under wine, i used it as hellanzb backup

**222MHz** · 12-19-2008, 05:10 PM

I use Pan to browse headers a lot.. And sabnzbd is running as a daemon watching the desktop for .zip and .nzb's .. I do notice that Pan seems to hold back the connect a bit, probably in design.. sab happily chugs away ~700KB and pan doesn't like getting past around 600.. I don't really care, fast enough for me.

As far as connections goes.. Pan has a max of 4 by default keeping them in the "Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval" however you can edit ~/.pan2/servers.xml and set it to whatever you'd like. Be aware that Editing News Servers from pan itself will rewrite that file replacing anything you did by hand.

Originally Posted by cimithan

alt.bin work fine under wine, i used it as hellanzb backup

WINE should be used as a last resort. There are bountiful GNU tools to preform any tasks needed..

man apropos
aptitude search ~dnzb (debian dudes)

google.com/linux

Should you run into a tool that is lacking a feature you'd like to see, have a look at the projects website/mailing lists and see what you can do to file a feature request. You don't have to be a developer to participate in the advancement of GNU/Linux.