Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Bernard  :
> I wish to install an alternate web browser

epiphany-webkit

> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to
> now, I have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred
> "pan".  

So do I

> For e-mail, [...] I plan to use 'mutt',

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/1/10, Bernard  wrote:
>  Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very expensive) ?
> I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...
>
Opera is 'free' as in 'free to use'. So, no need to register, pay, or
view adds; you can also request features, report bugs, etc.; you just
don't have direct access to the source. Otherwise, it is fairly robust
nowadays on Linux (possibly no crashes for weeks or so) and by default
contains a steady number of features for every-day browsing.
Personally I'm using the qt4 build [1].
[1] http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1010/final/en/

Another possibility is Midori (already mentioned). It is still in its
early ages, but in heavy development and gets more robust with every
release. It is open-source, extension-able, has an active community
and is affiliated with Xfce (although is itself desktop-independent).
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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:20:21 +0100
"tv.deb...@googlemail.com"  wrote:

...

> Hi, I use KDE has my main DE so Konqueror is a "natural" choice when I
> don't want to start Iceweasel with it's saved 10 tabs+ for a quick browse.

You could just keep a second IW profile around for this situation.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 01:17, mess-mate  wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:26, mess-mate  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I use firefox 3.6 beta4, works great without any problem about java and
>>> other plugins.
>>>
>>
>> Besides SeaMonkey 2.0, I also rather like Firefox 3.7alpha, which has
>> plugins (read: Flash) in a separate process.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I've tryed FF 3.7alpha and got problems running java applications. (64b)

Ah, I see. I don't use Java for anything myself.


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 02:02, Freeman  wrote:
>
> Doesn't Epiphany come in two flavors, mozilla and gecko engines?

Two flavors, yes, but they are Gecko (Mozilla projects and some others) and
Webkit (Chrome, Safari, many others). Epiphany 2.26 and under are Gecko,
2.28 and up are Webkit.


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread green
Bernard wrote at 2010-01-01 10:02 -0600:
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  
> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs  
> and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have  
> something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be  
> initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the  
> meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the  
> reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as  
> Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.

I suggest trying midori, though keep in mind that it is rather young.


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread green
Andrei Popescu wrote at 2010-01-02 05:29 -0600:
> On Fri,01.Jan.10, 22:04:12, Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> > > Hi to Everyone,
> > >
> > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  
> > 
> > epiphany (similar to firefox)
> > elinks (text only)
> > midori (never used it myself)
> > konqueror (KDE app, and very good)
> > dillo (very lightweight; not in Lenny repo)
> > w3m (text only)
> > galeon (never used it myself)
> > lynx
> > links
> > links2
> 
> uzbl for those who like vimperator ;)

I am ready for a crash-proof, minimalist, non-memory-hogging, 
ultra-customizable browser.  uzbl looks like a very promising project!


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,01.Jan.10, 22:04:12, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> > Hi to Everyone,
> >
> > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  
> 
> epiphany (similar to firefox)
> elinks (text only)
> midori (never used it myself)
> konqueror (KDE app, and very good)
> dillo (very lightweight; not in Lenny repo)
> w3m (text only)
> galeon (never used it myself)
> lynx
> links
> links2

uzbl for those who like vimperator ;)

Regards,
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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Bernard

Rob Owens wrote:

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
  

Hi to Everyone,

I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  



epiphany (similar to firefox)
elinks (text only)
midori (never used it myself)
konqueror (KDE app, and very good)
dillo (very lightweight; not in Lenny repo)
w3m (text only)
galeon (never used it myself)
lynx
links
links2

-Rob


  


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> 
> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very
> expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that
> Opera...
> 
> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to

Opera hasn't required registration for years now. 

I'd like to mention at this opportunity that the Debian standard of "free"
does not refer to money.  It refers to a licensing standard that, as best as
possible, supports open access to information and the programs running your
computer, transparency of the organization and the OS, and acts as a main
element in the Debian Social Contract.

http://www.debian.org/intro/free
http://www.debian.org/social_contract


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:04:12PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> > Hi to Everyone,
> >
> > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  
> 
> epiphany (similar to firefox)
> elinks (text only)
> midori (never used it myself)
> konqueror (KDE app, and very good)
> dillo (very lightweight; not in Lenny repo)
> w3m (text only)
> galeon (never used it myself)
> lynx
> links
> links2
> 


Good list, assuming Chrome is already mentioned.

Flock is still unmentioned I think.

Doesn't Epiphany come in two flavors, mozilla and gecko engines? 

I like using epiphany for quick and dirty stuff like opening links from text
programs like snownews, mutt, my home page of favorites and for system
browsing.  It is fast an clean.  I used to use Galeon for that.

I don't know what anyone sees in Opera. I paid to register the Win98 version
oh-so-many years ago.  Maybe it was innovative in that limited browsing
environment.  But it has just been an ever-growing PIA since.  But they
still seem to think highly of themselves.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-02 Thread mess-mate

Kelly Clowers wrote:


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:26, mess-mate  wrote:
  

I use firefox 3.6 beta4, works great without any problem about java and
other plugins.



Besides SeaMonkey 2.0, I also rather like Firefox 3.7alpha, which has
plugins (read: Flash) in a separate process.



  

I've tryed FF 3.7alpha and got problems running java applications. (64b)
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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:08:55PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> Bernard  wrote:
> 
> |>  I wish to install an alternate web browser
> 
> Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
> see).  It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
> Debian/Ubuntu.

Beware of packages provided by Google. They tend to mess with your
sources.list (both directly and through a cron job).



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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Charlie (aries...@clearmail.com.au) wrote:

  |>  >Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
  |>  >see).  It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
  |>  >Debian/Ubuntu.
  |>  >
  |>  >Jim
  |>  
  |>  Aha - didn't know it was licensed under GNU?

No. My understanding is that the parts that Google authored are
under the BSD license, so they can be imported either into open-source
or proprietary projects; subparts that they took from elsewhere are
under a variety of open-source licenses.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone  

epiphany (similar to firefox)
elinks (text only)
midori (never used it myself)
konqueror (KDE app, and very good)
dillo (very lightweight; not in Lenny repo)
w3m (text only)
galeon (never used it myself)
lynx
links
links2

-Rob


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 08:02, Bernard  wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone
> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and
> expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have something else
> too, one of these reasons being that it would be initiated with alternate
> identities, mail addresses etc.. In the meantime, this would allow me to
> test something else, which is the reason why I don't plan to install
> 'Netscape' which is about the same as Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using
> same conf files, bookmarks and so on.

Netscape has been discontinued, and it was only (since 6.0) a slight
derivative of the Mozilla Suite (now SeaMonkey) or Firefox.

As a SeaMonkey user, I can assure you that it does not use the same
files as FF - they are in a separate directory. Furthermore, why not just
use Firefox profiles? They are easy to use and completely separate
from each other. Besides config, history and bookmarks being separate,
extensions are also separate.

> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very expensive) ?
> I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...

Opera has been gratis and ad-free since 8.5, it was and remains non-libre.

To those mentioning Epiphany, it is based on Gecko in older versions
(but shares no config files), but the new version (2.28, dev version 2.29
currently in Testing/Sid), it is based on Webkit.


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:26, mess-mate  wrote:
>
> I use firefox 3.6 beta4, works great without any problem about java and
> other plugins.

Besides SeaMonkey 2.0, I also rather like Firefox 3.7alpha, which has
plugins (read: Flash) in a separate process.


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:20, tv.deb...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
>
> All those browsers are working more or less fine, minus occasional
> problems with flash or java (I'm on amd64), but none come close to
> Iceweasel's + extensions features IMHO.

What problems have you had with Flash? I installed the 64 bit Flash beta
for Linux (just grabbed the .so and symlinked it), and it has given me
the best Flash experience I have ever had (not that that is hard).


On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 17:41, Charlie  wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:08:55 -0800 Jim McCloskey 
> shared this with us all:
>>
>>Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
>>see).  It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
>>Debian/Ubuntu.
>>
>
> Aha - didn't know it was licensed under GNU?

If you DL the Chrome binary package from Google there is an
EULA, but the code and Chromium is under the BSD license.


Cheers,
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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:08:55 -0800 Jim McCloskey 
shared this with us all:

>Bernard  wrote:
>
>|>  I wish to install an alternate web browser
>
>Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
>see).  It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
>Debian/Ubuntu.
>
>Jim

Aha - didn't know it was licensed under GNU?

Thanks for that.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
Bernard  wrote:

|>  I wish to install an alternate web browser

Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can
see).  It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for
Debian/Ubuntu.

Jim



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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread mess-mate

tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:


Alan Ianson wrote:


On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote:
Hi to Everyone,

I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
(iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.
  
I use firefox 3.6 beta4, works great without any problem about java and 
other plugins.


mess-mate



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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Bernard  wrote:

> From: Bernard 
> Subject: alternate web browser etc...
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 4:02 PM
> Hi to Everyone,
> 
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the
> firefox clone (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have.
> Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and expectations, but, for
> various reasons, I wish to also have something else too, one
> of these reasons being that it would be initiated with
> alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the meantime,
> this would allow me to test something else, which is the
> reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about
> the same as Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf
> files, bookmarks and so on.
> 
> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is
> very expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something
> better that Opera...
> 
> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new.
> Up to now, I have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as
> I preferred "pan".  I've heard of "pine"  for
> newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to
> configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use
> "staroffice mail" in the old days when that did exist (So
> 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever since then, I am using Thunderbird,
> that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. Alternately, I plan to use
> 'mutt', which is already up and running on my systems ever
> since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an
> irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some
> time reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all
> right.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your insights and advices
> 
> Happy New Year to Everyone !
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 

Je te recommande google chrome.
Mais, il ya a beaucoup d'options.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote:

> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very  
> expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...
>
> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I  
> have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan".  I've  
> heard of "pine"  for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to  
> configure ; this may be wrong. 

That's correct, it's wrong. Alpine is the replacement for pine and it
uses the same config file as pine. Not hard at all to configure. You can
use it for mail and news although I prefer slrn for news.

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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>Alan Ianson wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote:
>> Hi to Everyone,
>>
>> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
>> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
>> and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
>> something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
>> initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
>> meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
>> reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
>> Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.
> 
> Gnome's browser epiphany comes to mind, it's also based on firefox IIRC.
> Also have a look at galeon if you need an alternate.
> 
>> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very 
>> expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...
> 
> I don't think opera needs to be registered any more, haven't looked at
> it in a while though. There are debs for it at the opera website, it can
> be added to sources.list and installed with apt-get or aptitude &
> friends also. Not a bad browser too if you need another.
> 
>> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I 
>> have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan".  I've 
>> heard of "pine"  for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to 
>> configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use "staroffice 
>> mail" in the old days when that did exist (So 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever 
>> since then, I am using Thunderbird, that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. 
>> Alternately, I plan to use 'mutt', which is already up and running on my 
>> systems ever since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an 
>> irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some time 
>> reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all right.
> 
> Pine is what I used many moons ago for mail & news. I suppose it might
> be a bit old school now but it does work wonderfully. Good if you want a
> console mail & news app. There is also tin for newsgroups, also maybe
> old school but works well.
> 
> 
> 
Hi, I use KDE has my main DE so Konqueror is a "natural" choice when I
don't want to start Iceweasel with it's saved 10 tabs+ for a quick browse.
I also sometime use Opera (installed from the ".deb" provided on their
website), and lately I have been testing Google Chrome Linux builds
(installed from their ".deb", note that just like Opera the Chrome
package drops a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d to integrate with
Debian's package management, if you don't like it you have to erase it
and update manually).

All those browsers are working more or less fine, minus occasional
problems with flash or java (I'm on amd64), but none come close to
Iceweasel's + extensions features IMHO.

Have a nice time experimenting.

godt nytt år to the list.


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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
> 
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
> and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
> something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
> initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
> meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
> reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
> Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.

Gnome's browser epiphany comes to mind, it's also based on firefox IIRC.
Also have a look at galeon if you need an alternate.

> Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very 
> expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...

I don't think opera needs to be registered any more, haven't looked at
it in a while though. There are debs for it at the opera website, it can
be added to sources.list and installed with apt-get or aptitude &
friends also. Not a bad browser too if you need another.

> As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I 
> have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan".  I've 
> heard of "pine"  for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to 
> configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use "staroffice 
> mail" in the old days when that did exist (So 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever 
> since then, I am using Thunderbird, that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. 
> Alternately, I plan to use 'mutt', which is already up and running on my 
> systems ever since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an 
> irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some time 
> reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all right.

Pine is what I used many moons ago for mail & news. I suppose it might
be a bit old school now but it does work wonderfully. Good if you want a
console mail & news app. There is also tin for newsgroups, also maybe
old school but works well.



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Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-01 at 11:02:35 -0500, Bernard wrote:
> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
> and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
> something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
> initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
> meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
> reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
> Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.

If you have a GNOME desktop, which is the default desktop with Debian,
the first thing that comes to mind is the Epiphany browser, which is
installed by default.  What I'm not sure of is how independent it is
from iceweasel.  It uses the same HTML rendering engine (Gecko) that
iceweasel does; so it may share some config files.  But that is what
I would investigate first, since it's probably already installed.

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alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Bernard

Hi to Everyone,

I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
(iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.


Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very 
expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...


As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I 
have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan".  I've 
heard of "pine"  for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to 
configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use "staroffice 
mail" in the old days when that did exist (So 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever 
since then, I am using Thunderbird, that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. 
Alternately, I plan to use 'mutt', which is already up and running on my 
systems ever since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an 
irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some time 
reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all right.


Thanks in advance for your insights and advices

Happy New Year to Everyone !

Bernard


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