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Hi

Is it possible to run newsbin on a mac using wine or something like that?

I just got a mac and none of the native mac newsreaders can compete with newsbin on binaries. So I would like to avoid installing windows on the mac and run newsbin like in linux. Is that possible (its a intel mac).

It's early days yet with wine on OSX. I believe Smite here in the forums tried it out and had trouble getting wine running. He might jump in if he had any success.

Apparently Parallels works OK, as long as you don't mind the significant overhead of running a full Windows install in a window.

DT

Yeah, I gave up on darwine when it didn't do anything at all when attempting to run the NewsBin installer.

Since my laptop has limited storage, I've just kept running NB on my PC instead.

If you do get it running though, be sure to let us know how you did it.

I'm moving to OSX, no more Micro$oft stuff at my home.

Well.... almost.

I still use XP in a vmware fusion session but I find it silly to keep all that only to run a usenet news software.

As much as I love newsbin, has anyone found a good osx alternative ?

Thx

Ralph

digitalfrog wrote:
As much as I love newsbin, has anyone found a good osx alternative ?

Thx

Ralph

Unison isn't horribly bad - if you have a decent way of getting NZBs (i haven't downloaded headers in ages then Unison will do the trick. Not super sure about a comparison to Newsbin's autorar feature though

newsbin works just fine for me with crossover wine on osx. It looks a bit wierd, but works fine.

I have been running Newsbin using VMWare fusion. It is great. Only wish though that there was a native version of Newsbin for Mac. Buy VMWare fusion and run it on Fusion using Unity and you will barely note the difference.

i use unison on snow and it's pretty sweet, though am still waiting for that newsbin osx version as unison is lacking a few features.

spalek83 wrote:i use unison on snow and it's pretty sweet, though am still waiting for that newsbin osx version as unison is lacking a few features.

doubt there will ever be a port to osx

Not until you mac people build up you popularity. I suspect Win7 is going reduce the rate of people abandoning windows. I never say never though.

I'd have to buy a mac though.

you don't need to buy a mac to use os x

This is an old thread. Have you tried wine? I've heard of success stories.

DT

Newsbin 5.55B3 is running fine for me using the wine-devel package from MacPorts.

'Fine' to me is program loading, and doing its intended job. It downloads, does par2 checking, and automatic unraring. I have not tested anything else.

OSX 10.6.2, late 2009 Mac Mini 2.53GHz/320GB/4GB

I thought Mac users might find this interesting, maybe report back if it works with Newsbin:

http://lifehacker.com/5440703/winebottl ... plications

DT