"arnuld uttre" <arnuld.miz...@gmail.com> posted 3a97b5b90901140053g5e2c8d61ycaa980b7f4c20...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:23:26 +0530:
> Ini the end, its the 2nd longest email I have ever got on some mailing > list. You do know a lot about PAN history. I think your reply needs to > be something like Sticky :) ... And I only know about it from 0.11.something, back when a dependency was GNOME (1.x). By then Charles had been developing it for some time. I know nothing of the real early stuff, pre-late-2001, IIRC. (FWIW I got serious about and switched to Linux when eXPrivacy came out, starting the switch that weekend after having prepared for it since I first heard about the authorization scheme. That was late 2001. It took me ~90 days to get all the apps I wanted to use in Linux as parallels for the MS based ones figured out and get everything including my then three 17" monitors working. Pan was the news app I settled on, KDE was the desktop and most other apps were KDE based.) I've always wondered about the original author, what he was like, if PAN was GNOME based or pre-GNOME back then, why he quit, etc. He's not even listed in the rewrite any more, as it is just that, a rewrite, tho if it were me I'd still credit him for the original code. But it's not me... BTW, PAN originally stood for "Pimp-Ass Newsreader", putting an emphasis on where it always intended to go but hasn't yet reached, but as with many "politically incorrect" names, that has been deemphasized as Linux and free/libre and open source software has targeted the mainstream. As a result, tho I think I was the only one doing it, up until the rewrite, I alway wrote it as PAN unless I was talking the executable file itself, since the filename is lowercase. But with the announcement of the rewrite and release of 0.90, I finally gave it up as well, and now that's a bit of trivia few know any more. As for the original thread topic, I'll look into it and hope to reply later, if we're lucky, with a link to an rpm you can try. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
