On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised "don't try > using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the whole KDE > environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead of Kmail". > > I kept my gob somewhat shut at that time, because I've been using Knode for > a long time on my headless server. I ssh in from my Mac and open Knode in > X11. > > I guess Usenet isn't so popular these days, and I have never been able to > find a Mac native client that I'm happy with. > > I like Knode's simple 3-pane layout. Knode has improved visually with the > KDE4 release, but the much debated KDE4 dependencies thing. > > It has only just occurred to me today to ask if there's an alternative that > looks & acts just the same, but which isn't part of the whole KDE4 > environment. > > Any suggestions?
For textual usenet i use mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird. For binary usenet I use net-nntp/bnr2.
