BSD Portsnews/flnews 1.3.0nb2 NetBSD
Fast and lightweight USENET newsreader with GUI
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Last update
- Commit
7b5a3977f9- License
- modified-bsd AND 2-clause-bsd AND unicode
- Categories
- news
- Package size
- 236.2 KiB, 1001.3 KiB installed
Description
flnews is a client with graphical user interface to read USENET newsgroups. It is intended for POSIX compliant operating systems running the X window system.
The main development goals are (in order of importance):
- No bloat
- Support for old workstations
- Standard compliance
- Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others
- Compatibility with other newsreaders
- Usable X display redirection via network (or ssh tunnel)
- Warn users about things that are not forbidden but considered "bad practice"
Features that are currently not implemented (or not usable yet):
- UUCP
- Multiple servers
- Offline mode (for network connection via dialup line)
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 1.3.0, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetBSD | news/flnews | 1.3.0nb2 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-09-29 |
| FreeBSD | news/flnews | 1.3.0 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | news/flnews | 1.3.0 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | news/flnews | 1.3.0 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkgin install flnewsFrom pkgsrc:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/news/flnews && make install cleanPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | Version |
|---|---|
| NetBSD 10.1 x86_64 | 1.3.0nb2 |
| NetBSD 10.1 aarch64 | 1.3.0nb2 |
| SmartOS / illumos x86_64 | - |
| macOS 15 arm64 | 1.3.0nb4 |
Dependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
Run dependencies 3
No port depends on this one.