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Originally Posted by shady View Post
Good afternoon everyone,

after spending sometime with my due diligence (search button) i have not seen anyone ask about a newsgroup client in the N900 section of the boards, im not 100% sure if this should be posted in the Maemo 5 section or here and will not spam the forum trying to find out. however i will be getting a N900 next week (shipped but with all this snow on the midatlantic who knows really) and wanted to use it as a netbook replacement, does anyone know if theres a newsgroup reader such as "SABnzbd", or when one would be available, would other *nix newsgroup clients work with maemo5? has anyone tried to port one. any help would be appreciated, i cannot test till i get the device but im greatly interested in a NGClient as opposed to bittorrent.

thanks everyone.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away (namely OS2006, the OS for the 770) there was a version of the "pan" newsreader available for Maemo through the maemo-hackers repository. It looks like they never updated it for Bora or Diablo and they seem to have stopping working on anything Maemo related, so nothing available for Fremantle/Maemo 5.

Maybe somebody can look at their code and see if it can be cleaned up for later versions of Maemo.

Note this is not the same thing as maemo-pan, which is something related to bluetooth and is available in the extras repository.