🚀 go-pugleaf

cassidy@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Cassidy Lynar) writes:

>>I've been told that nn is an excellent threaded news reader.  Does it run
>>well under X?  I'm in the process of installing nn right now.
> 	
>	Works just dandy over here... make sure you do have the lastest of
>patches tho, as I had problems with anything under patch 6, in which the
>daemon was from time to time crashing. NN also uses a large amount of disk
>space to build it's tables.
Nn has no support for X- or other -windows. It just uses a terminal
interface, which xterm may provide.
>>Next project - order X-Windows.  Bryan @ ISC mentioned that the next release 
>>of X (due in a couple of weeks) will support my ATI VGA Wonder board in the 

>	Humph! Why spend 800.00 on X11 when you can get the sources and build
>it yourself? ISC has a wonderful ability to take free sources, hack and screw
>it up, then turn around and charge you a great deal of money for it.
You still need the servers. Have somebody take the sample server and
converted it for some VGA boards? That would give your statement
impacts, otherwise its a car without wheels...

Happy New Year,
Lars Povlsen,
Computer Science Dept., University of Copenhagen, Denmark
E-mail: krus@diku.dk / ...!mcvax!dkuug!diku!krus