On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 05:59:12AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you give a short comparison of all those, and perhaps others? > Is suck comparable to the other 2 - its description does mention INN/CNEWS as > desirable package ?
Suck just deals with downloading news - it also requires a news server like CNEWS or INN to allow you to read the news. It basically provides a pull feed for a full news server which doesn't know how to do one for itself. Leafnode does everything needed to download and allow you to read news. The downside is that current versions don't download news particularly fast and you can't create any local groups of your own. OTOH, it's extremely easy to configure and maintain. I don't know newscache at all, but from the package description it appears to do the same job that Leafnode does - it's probably a case of parallel evolution. Probably pretty much everything I've said about Leafnode goes for it too. I should probably point out that the above might be a bit biased since I am the Leafnode maintainer, although I do also run an INN system. While INN is quite a nice system it is complete overkill unless you're taking a real news feed or need to set up local groups. The daemon is fairly big and needs to be run all the time, and the maintinance for a pulling feed is a bit more work than with Leafnode. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
pgpHngVuOBdSA.pgp
Description: PGP signature
