Pan (newsreader)

Pan
Original author(s)Matt Eagleson
Initial release30 July 1999; 25 years ago (1999-07-30)[1][2]
Stable release
0.160[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 11 August 2024
Repository
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD OpenSolaris, and Windows
TypeNews client
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
Websitepan.rebelbase.com

Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode, yEnc and base64; images in common formats can be viewed inline. Pan is free software available for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Windows.

Pan is popular for its large feature set. It passes the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval 2.0 set of standards for newsreaders.

  1. ^ 0.4.0 ChangeLog, Version 0.4.0 (Friday 30 July 1999) - Initial release
  2. ^ "August 5, 1999 - Pan 0.4.3 released". Archived from the original on 21 February 2001. Retrieved 2016-04-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "[Pan-announce] [ANNOUNCE] Pan release 0.160". Retrieved 16 September 2024.