Pan--A Feature-Rich Newsreader for Linux | Linux Today

Pan–A Feature-Rich Newsreader for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 19, 2007

“If you still visit Usenet or occasionally participate in its
discussions and newsgroups, you can get by with Linux newsgroup
readers that are integrated into browsers or email clients such as
Thunderbird, Evolution, and the Opera Web browser. But if you’re an
advanced user who wants a more feature-rich newsreader, you need
Pan.

“Pan’s current stable release, 0.14.2, is four years old, but
the project is in active development; its latest beta version is
0.131. You can download source and binary packages for Linux,
Windows, and Mac OS X from the project’s site, and many
distributions offer Pan in their repositories as well…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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