Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[bo.rosen@xxxxxxx (Bo Rosén)]

On 25-Nov-98 Chris Keenan wrote:
> 
> As others have said, one of the major applications I would miss by
> moving to Linux totally would be Agent. A couple of questions:

I would definitely like to see agent for X. I wrote to Forte earlier
this year (I make a point of badgering companies for Linux versions of
software I like), just as I was preparing to install Linux and asked
about this, but got a negative reply.
There is a fair number of good mail-readers for Linux, but off-line
news-readers that are easy to install as well as good are hard to find.

> 
> Why is this about the only combined news & e-mail reader? I don't
> want
> to have separate packages for these functions, and as they are
> basically the same type of task, what's the big deal? I want to be

A matter of taste and tradition I suppose, I always thought agent was
just what I wanted. Of course, I've just about given up on usenet now,
too much noise.
 
> Secondly, as I understand it, development on Agent has stopped. Is
> there any chance someone might take it off Forte's hands, and do a
> Linux version?

One can dream. In an ideal world (my ideal anyway) the kde and gnome
teams collaborate to make something like agent.

Sorry for the "me too" character of the mail,

Bo
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