cgh018@rti.rti.org (Calvin Hayden ) (03/09/90)
We are currently running on a Vax 8600 under Sys V Rel2 Ver2. We get a
nightly usenet feed from rti. The software that we are using is (I
believe) "netnews 2.10", along with "vn" as our news reader. We are soon
to be moving over to a Sun network, and I want to get our usenet feed
moved to the Suns. My questions are: In your opinion, what usenet-feed
software (such as netnews) seems to work the best on a Sun? Which news
reader seems to work best on a Sun? How much trouble are these to install
them on a Sun? How buggy have these proven to be? And last, where can I
get them -- I only have uucp access through rti? Your input would be much
appreciated. I think it might be better to try to get a package running
on the Sun(s) that someone else probably already has running than to try
and get my current S/W running 'em. Thanks in advance! Please email, and
I will summarize if there is any interest.
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Johnson City, TN 37605 |bob@morningstar.com (Bob Sutterfield) (03/13/90)
| From: tijc02!cgh018@rti.rti.org (Calvin Hayden ) | Date: 8 Mar 90 16:08:54 GMT | | ...we are using ... "netnews 2.10"... with "vn" as our news reader. That's pretty ancient. The current B news release is 2.11 (patchlevel 19), and C news is out. If you're basically just starting, which you are if you're still running 2.10, then you may as well go with C news. | We are soon to be moving over to a Sun network... In your opinion, | what usenet-feed software (such as netnews) seems to work the best | on a Sun? C news absorbs fewer cycles than B news, generally. But it hasn't been in use for as long, and 2.11+19 is very stable and functional. See news.software.b and news.admin for general discussion. Since you'll be setting up an internal network, you will want to set up only one machine as a news cache, with all the others accessing their news from it via NNTP. | Which news reader seems to work best on a Sun? There are dozens. rn (currently 4.3+44) is a popular semi-standard, and lotsa folks like nn. If you use GNU Emacs, there are two very good interfaces available: GNUS (currently version 3.12, though 3.13 will be out shortly) and gnews (currently 2.0). If you use X, there's xrn. | How much trouble are these to install them on a Sun? None at all. Suns are something of a reference standard for portability of this kind of stuff. If you're accustomed to 2.10, you'll find that almost anything newer will be far easier to install and maintain. | How buggy have these proven to be? C news hasn't been around as long as B news 2.11, but there are a lot of folks (including ourselves) who are plenty satisfied with it. Some small leaf sites and some major backbone sites run 2.11, and some of each run C news. | And last, where can I get them -- I only have uucp access through rti? You can get all this stuff (except nn) via anonymous UUCP from osu-cis. Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu (== osu-cis!uucp) for instructions.