BSD Portswip/flnews-snapshot 1.4.0pre3 NetBSD
Fast and lightweight USENET newsreader with GUI
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc-wip
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Last update
- Commit
c8781ccc0b- License
- modified-bsd AND 2-clause-bsd AND unicode
- Categories
- wip, news
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 1.4.0pre3, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetBSD | wip/flnews-snapshot | 1.4.0pre3 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | 2026-07-29 |
| FreeBSD | news/flnews by name | 1.3.0 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| HardenedBSD | news/flnews by name | 1.3.0 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | news/flnews by name | 1.3.0 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):
cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/flnews-snapshot && make install cleanDependency 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
Build dependencies 1
Run dependencies 3
No port depends on this one.