Travis posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:38:10 -0700:
> Is BNR3 beta 0.14.6 as stable as Pan 0.14.2? As I've said, it's not freedomware (can't be compiled from source by a freedomware compiler such as gcc), so I don't run it. However, several folks here run either BNR2 or BNR3, and swear by it for binaries. I believe they're both fairly stable in the one sense, but BNR2 tends to eat its database file if it gets too big. Everyone says delete it before it at about half or 3/4 gig, and download overviews again, and it'll be stable. BNR3 is (they say) almost exactly the same, except the database is different, more stable so it doesn't need deleted, but also somewhat slower. What "slower" means in actual use, I really can't say, but apparently, it's /enough/ slower, that on a 4 Mbps pipe, connecting to 3 or more servers, some prefer BNR2 and just delete the database file for it periodically (between half and three quarter gig, as I said). >From all accounts, the big issue with BNR2/3 isn't the stability, it's the UI. It's /very/ powerful, allowing all sorts of interesting stuff, but some just can't get used to the way it works, as it's rather different than traditional newsreaders because it is /not/ a traditional newsreader, but a binary news harvester, and the UI is tuned for harvesting, not for reading. That's just too big a jump for some folks to comfortably make. That said, as I said, it's very powerful. Again, I've not used it, but those that do say that with its want filters and other features such as virtual servers and virtual groups, they can spend as little as 15 minutes a day managing it, updating want filters and the like, where they used to spend hours with a traditional news reader babysitting downloads. I know one guy that downloads his own stuff, plus feeds the regular series requests from several friends to the thing as well, Downloading TV shows and the like for not only himself, but several friends, and managing it all in, as I said, about 15 minutes a day, then he goes off and leaves it going, and checks on it again in the morning, generally finding it all done. He then burns a DVD with the shows on it each friend wants, a time or two a week, and gives it to them. As I said, BNR2/3 work on both MSWormOS and Linux. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
