It's a quick and easy fix for someone who wants to "make their computer do something".
In that case, LaTeX would also be a good idea. It's more structured than HTML, and thus is a bit more programming-language-esque, but isn't much harder.
Of course, HTML + JavaScript does have its advantaqes, since you don't have to write a full program in JavaScript--HTML takes care of most of the structure and presentation of the page, so you only have to write the JS code needed to perform stuff, which isn't much early on.
Well yeah, you bought some garbage from some Taiwanese company that probably didn't even bother to read the chip's datasheet. Duh! Don't expect onboard ethernet to replace a PCI card when you're willing to pay a total of $68 for USB, Firewire, serial, parallel, 4xIDE, RAID 0+1 and all the rest.
Taiwanese? Funny you should mention that...my PCI network card is also from a Taiwanese company (different one tho--mobo is ASRock, chipset is SiS, PCI NIC is Realtek). And if I build another computer, I'll likely go with a Realtek card, since I've had no problems with it.
And, for the record, I agree with you. The guy above me who said that no one needs to buy a PCI Ethernet card because most mobos come with onboard LAN. I was pointing out that he was wrong.
And I also should have read up more on what motherboard to buy (btw, my mobo doesn't have FireWire or RAID...I don't need them)--I suppose it's a learning experience, for the next time I have a computer built. I've learned to stay far, far away from any mobo with an SiS chipset. I've had so many problems with this damn thing, and I'm not just referring to the Ethernet.
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Why would you buy a network card when nearly every mainboard has one built-in?
Maybe because their onboard LAN ports suck. I know mine does. You know what the MAC address of my SiS onboard Ethernet was? 00-00-00-00-00-00. Man, SiS is pathetic. I'm not entirely sure what the chipset is tho (the onboard sound has an Intel chipset, so that could also be true for the Ethernet). Why? Because I've had it disabled in the BIOS for months. As soon as I saw the bogus MAC address, I ran out and bought a Realtek card which has worked perfectly since.
2. The car wasn't even moving when she spilled it.
She still spilled it. It wasn't like some guy from McDonalds poured it into her lap, she spilled it on herself. That automatically makes it her fault and no one else's.
The worst breakfast ever: "Swanson, producers of some of the world's fattiest TV dinners, is seeking to take over the breakfast market with a new line of microwaveable morning meals. It's called the 'Hungry Man All Day Breakfast,' and it's threatening to turn people into manatees."
Actually, I've had it before, and I quite like it.
Also, I'll add that they recently changed it. They dropped the eggs and replaced them with something else (I forgot which...it's been a while).
Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!
It's Fedora's fault for making those applications the default. Fedora and Debian are the only major distributions that have Gnome be the default, and Debian is well-known as a dinosaur. Why can't they be more like a normal distro (Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware) and focus on KDE?
Also, I remember trying Fedora Core 1 a few months back. Programs crashed like crazy. Because of that, their version of KDE was just short of unusable, and their Gnome wasn't much better. Funny how that doesn't happen in any other distro. A real-life friend of mine had similar problems with programs crashing--worse problems, IIRC. The problems are clearly in Fedora's builds of the applications, as I've never seen these crashes in any other distro.
His gnome troll is the worst of all. This is one piece of Free Software that dares to innovate on the desktop
Mandrake 10 was officially released about two days ago? FC2 was released a week and half ago... I'm not sure where you get your perception of time, but it's a bit confused.
Bzzzt! Mandrake 10.0 Official was released to MandrakeClub members on April 14, far before Fedora Core 2.
Also, Mandrake 10.0 Community was released on March 4. And yes, the Community Edition most certainly counts--if you didn't count it, then you'd have to not count Fedora Core, as it's the Community Edition of RHEL.
Let's not forget other distros. SuSE 9.1, with Kernel 2.6, came out in Europe on April 23, and in the rest of the world on May 6. Gentoo has also had 2.6 for a long time, though it's labelled gentoo-dev-sources, so it probably can't be considered the default.
Ctrl + L will open the filename box, with autocomplete and all.
It's useless. Let's see...nowhere in the dialog box does it say to use ctrl-L to open a text box (I've played around with gedit before, out of curiosity, and I didn't know this keystroke until I read it in this thread). Ctrl-L also means extra typing, and you can't access the rest of the open dialog while the ctrl-L box is open.
Of course, the ctrl-L box is the only way to go to a directory without having to click your way through the filesystem (an extremely slow task) or type part of a file's name and have the file selected, which makes the two most important features of a file open dialog useless.
Here are some other horrible ``features'' of the Gnome 2.6 file selector, which are mostly inherited from the previous one:
No way to create your own filter. You're stuck with the ones that come with the app.
The file listing is purely vertical, which wastes space and makes navigation a pain (and what's up with the modification dates?). The above complaint about no filter creation only makes this worse. Conversely, the preset location panel is way too big, also wasting space.
I'm sure I'll think of more things I hate about this file dialog after I post this, but I think this is enough...for now.
I'll also add that I'll not be happy until the Gnome devs just decide to completely ape KDE's file selector. I love using KDE's file selector, and IMO, it's what every other file selector should base itself on.
This is IMHO as fatalistic as a comment can be.
Lets not do anything, because we'll loose anyway. Some idea like don't leave your house, the day will be shitty anyway.
I never said anything of the sort. I said there was a risk, I never said it was an unacceptable one. I made another comment elsewhere on this article, which supported ReactOS.
Just because I worry about something, doesn't mean I'm paralyzed with fear or that I want others to be.
Some people actually like the noise from their fans.
I know that I can't sleep unless my computer is on. I need the white noise produced by my fans in order to sleep. In fact, even if I'm not trying to sleep, I can't stand being in my room if the computer's off (which it rarely is, unless there's a power outage) because I'm so used to the white noise from its fans.
What does ReactOS bring to the table, if it's three generations behind Microsoft?
Well, once ReactOS development gets to an advanced enough level, I'd be able to play some of my favourite games without having to boot into Windows.
I'm not as concerned with commercial viability as I am with the ability to run Windows programs without having to use a proprietary OS. Whether or not it's a commercial success is really irrelevant. Look at Linux--it's nowhere near as commercially viable as Windows (and I'm not bashing Linux here--I love Linux, and it's my primary OS), but it's still a great OS.
Of course, ReactOS will only become advanced enough if there's a community supporting it...people in the OSS community saying that the idea of a Windows clone is useless can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people believe the concept is useless, and it gets abandoned, it will be useless. But it's a viable project, and shouldn't be discouraged.
I wouldn't be suprised to see it spark a national security investigation over the gathering threat these FS/OSS terrorists pose to our way of life!
Hmm...as much as many Slashdotters think that some ``anti-terrorist'' crusade against OSS is going to happen (over something, if not this--people have brought this up numerous times in various comments to earlier articles), I very seriously doubt it'll happen over something like this.
IMO, it would take something really big, like some kind of OSS-based attack against government computers (don't ask me how--I'm just throwing out an example) to cause something like that. Unless something huge happens, I don't think the US government could possibly sell a ``War on Open Source'' to the public.
Of course, I could just be a hopeless optimist, but there's really no precedent for something like this at all.
...I can't help but worry that Microsoft is going to screw them over. I think that the more ReactOS develops, the more likely we'll see an immoral patent-infringement lawsuit from Microsoft against ReactOS.
I use Coranto for my blog, plus the iSay addon as a commenting system and it works fine for me. Of course, it has relatively low traffic (and I'd like to keep it that way...I'm not putting my DynDNS name on/. -- I'm not suicidal), so I don't know how well it'd stand up to heavy usage.
Anyone else have any experiences with using Coranto (with or without iSay...iSay is alpha after all, and not entirely Free-as-in-speech), especially on a high-traffic server?
Comcast actually did something I agree with. I'm stunned.
Surgical strikes are a good idea--they stop the damn zombies without screwing over everyone else. Tho I think only blocking port 25 for zombies isn't going far enough.
IMO, Comcast should block the MAC addresses of spyware/virus infected zombies and send letters to these people, telling them that they'll only be unblocked if they can present proof that the virii/spyware are off their computers and that they've taken measures to ensure that it never happens again.
I mean Jesus - How hard (or how much more money would it have cost) to simply fucking NAT these idiot soccer moms running Windows ME.
You have any idea what kind of problems this would cause? Many servers only allow one connection per IP address...now imagine if several separate accounts on an ISP were behind a NAT. They'd all have the same IP, and their connections to so many sites would be blocked if even one person under the same NAT was downloading from them.
I'm a Comcast user, and I've played around with using Postfix to send mail--it's worked perfectly. Of course, it might not have used port 25...it's been a while since I had Postfix running, and I've since reformatted, so I don't remember. But it is possible to send mail from Comcast.
This is leading many to believe that it is an issue with the 2.6 kernel, rather than a specific distro.
Nope. I'm running Gentoo with 2.6.5 and I have no problems at all with dual-booting. And, for the record, my Windows partition runs Win2K Professional, one of the versions affected by this issue.
Your post also referred specifically to Mandrake 10 Official, not Community, but they both ran 2.6. I know Community doesn't have this problem, as I used it for a short time before switching to Gentoo. So if they both have 2.6, but the problem is only with Official, it can't be a 2.6 issue.
Could the bootloader be an issue? I use GRUB--what bootloader do the people who have this problem use? GRUB, LILO, or are the results mixed? If all of them use LILO, it could be a LILO issue.
Well, for one thing, this is a battle Microsoft has to fight on multiple fronts.
Compare fighting Linux to fighting Macintosh. To fight the Mac, MS pretty much only has to concern itself with competing against Apple (or as close to ``competing'' as MS can get).
To fight Linux, MS has to fight IBM, RedHat, Novell, and numerous smaller companies. That's where the difference lies.
Moral of the story: When someone with questionable political allegiance commits a crime (hosting of copyrighted internal memos), and when they do so in order to subvert the faith that otherwise loyal citizens would have in their leaders (an act that borders on honest-to-Gawd sedition), you may think you have a right to read those memos -- but whether you have such a right, you have a responsibility (to the State) not to read them.
Only members of duly-appointed election committees have a responsibility to read such memos. Unless you're one of them, you don't have a need to know. Those who downloaded this material without a need to know will presumably get what's coming to them.
And if those memos are true, then what this person did is a Good Thing. If there really is corruption in the government, then the people damn well have a right to know. ``The people'' as in the same people who will be affected if someone who didn't really win the vote ends up in office, and in many cases, the same voters whose votes may very well have been altered by this.
I'm honestly stunned that anyone here believes people should be prosecuted for reading memos that detail possible corruption in the elections process. I'll also link to another reply to your post, just because the AC who posted that hit the nail on the head, and really doesn't deserve his (or her) post being below most people's thresholds.
Dear Zod, I hope you were being sarcastic in your post. If so, I really have to congratulate you on showing via sarcasm and irony exactly why the government covering this up is wrong--your post used the same rationale that Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and countless other dictators used to justify the persecution of dissidents. If you weren't being sarcastic...well, then I'm just appalled at your fascistic sympathies.
SBC = (Something - Southern, maybe?) Bell Company, one of the Big Bells, provides service throughout the Midwest.
Well, SBC/SWBell has been the local phone provider in my area since I was born, so I should know this...
SBC used to be Southwestern Bell, up until 1998, when they officially shortened their name to just SBC--technically, it doesn't stand for anything now, but it sounds like it's supposed to be from Southwestern Bell Corporation. It wasn't even a common nickname for the company...they were usually called SWBell or SWB until the name change.
The name change came not long after they bought Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and Southern New England Telecommunications (actually, I didn't know this part until I looked it up on Wikipedia).
Half-life 2 is delayed, Doom 3 is delayed, the new Skyline GT-R is put off 2 years, and now I have to wait 20 years for this cool pill?
Hey, the pill will still be out before Duke Nukem Forever is. As an added bonus, it'll help you live longer, so you may very well be alive when DNF is released thanks to this pill.
I've been using the transparency in Konsole (KDE's terminal) since I switched to Linux over a year ago, and reading around, Konsole's had it for years. KDE has it in their KDE 2.x screenshots page (fourth screenshot from the top).
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It's a quick and easy fix for someone who wants to "make their computer do something".
In that case, LaTeX would also be a good idea. It's more structured than HTML, and thus is a bit more programming-language-esque, but isn't much harder.
Of course, HTML + JavaScript does have its advantaqes, since you don't have to write a full program in JavaScript--HTML takes care of most of the structure and presentation of the page, so you only have to write the JS code needed to perform stuff, which isn't much early on.
Well yeah, you bought some garbage from some Taiwanese company that probably didn't even bother to read the chip's datasheet. Duh! Don't expect onboard ethernet to replace a PCI card when you're willing to pay a total of $68 for USB, Firewire, serial, parallel, 4xIDE, RAID 0+1 and all the rest.
Taiwanese? Funny you should mention that...my PCI network card is also from a Taiwanese company (different one tho--mobo is ASRock, chipset is SiS, PCI NIC is Realtek). And if I build another computer, I'll likely go with a Realtek card, since I've had no problems with it.
And, for the record, I agree with you. The guy above me who said that no one needs to buy a PCI Ethernet card because most mobos come with onboard LAN. I was pointing out that he was wrong.
And I also should have read up more on what motherboard to buy (btw, my mobo doesn't have FireWire or RAID...I don't need them)--I suppose it's a learning experience, for the next time I have a computer built. I've learned to stay far, far away from any mobo with an SiS chipset. I've had so many problems with this damn thing, and I'm not just referring to the Ethernet.
Why would you buy a network card when nearly every mainboard has one built-in?
Maybe because their onboard LAN ports suck. I know mine does. You know what the MAC address of my SiS onboard Ethernet was? 00-00-00-00-00-00. Man, SiS is pathetic. I'm not entirely sure what the chipset is tho (the onboard sound has an Intel chipset, so that could also be true for the Ethernet). Why? Because I've had it disabled in the BIOS for months. As soon as I saw the bogus MAC address, I ran out and bought a Realtek card which has worked perfectly since.
2. The car wasn't even moving when she spilled it.
She still spilled it. It wasn't like some guy from McDonalds poured it into her lap, she spilled it on herself. That automatically makes it her fault and no one else's.
The worst breakfast ever: "Swanson, producers of some of the world's fattiest TV dinners, is seeking to take over the breakfast market with a new line of microwaveable morning meals. It's called the 'Hungry Man All Day Breakfast,' and it's threatening to turn people into manatees."
Actually, I've had it before, and I quite like it.
Also, I'll add that they recently changed it. They dropped the eggs and replaced them with something else (I forgot which...it's been a while).
Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!
It's Fedora's fault for making those applications the default. Fedora and Debian are the only major distributions that have Gnome be the default, and Debian is well-known as a dinosaur. Why can't they be more like a normal distro (Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware) and focus on KDE?
Also, I remember trying Fedora Core 1 a few months back. Programs crashed like crazy. Because of that, their version of KDE was just short of unusable, and their Gnome wasn't much better. Funny how that doesn't happen in any other distro. A real-life friend of mine had similar problems with programs crashing--worse problems, IIRC. The problems are clearly in Fedora's builds of the applications, as I've never seen these crashes in any other distro.
His gnome troll is the worst of all. This is one piece of Free Software that dares to innovate on the desktop
Riiiiiiiiight. I'll be damned if your post isn't a troll. Read this KDE article with screenshots and then try to tell me KDE doesn't innovate.
Mandrake 10 was officially released about two days ago? FC2 was released a week and half ago... I'm not sure where you get your perception of time, but it's a bit confused.
Bzzzt! Mandrake 10.0 Official was released to MandrakeClub members on April 14, far before Fedora Core 2.
Also, Mandrake 10.0 Community was released on March 4. And yes, the Community Edition most certainly counts--if you didn't count it, then you'd have to not count Fedora Core, as it's the Community Edition of RHEL.
Let's not forget other distros. SuSE 9.1, with Kernel 2.6, came out in Europe on April 23, and in the rest of the world on May 6. Gentoo has also had 2.6 for a long time, though it's labelled gentoo-dev-sources, so it probably can't be considered the default.
Ctrl + L will open the filename box, with autocomplete and all.
It's useless. Let's see...nowhere in the dialog box does it say to use ctrl-L to open a text box (I've played around with gedit before, out of curiosity, and I didn't know this keystroke until I read it in this thread). Ctrl-L also means extra typing, and you can't access the rest of the open dialog while the ctrl-L box is open.
Of course, the ctrl-L box is the only way to go to a directory without having to click your way through the filesystem (an extremely slow task) or type part of a file's name and have the file selected, which makes the two most important features of a file open dialog useless.
Here are some other horrible ``features'' of the Gnome 2.6 file selector, which are mostly inherited from the previous one:
No way to create your own filter. You're stuck with the ones that come with the app.
The file listing is purely vertical, which wastes space and makes navigation a pain (and what's up with the modification dates?). The above complaint about no filter creation only makes this worse. Conversely, the preset location panel is way too big, also wasting space.
I'm sure I'll think of more things I hate about this file dialog after I post this, but I think this is enough...for now.
I'll also add that I'll not be happy until the Gnome devs just decide to completely ape KDE's file selector. I love using KDE's file selector, and IMO, it's what every other file selector should base itself on.
There was also a Dilbert strip that had the exact same joke too. It was the joke on January 20, 2004, so it's no longer in the archives.
This is IMHO as fatalistic as a comment can be. Lets not do anything, because we'll loose anyway. Some idea like don't leave your house, the day will be shitty anyway.
I never said anything of the sort. I said there was a risk, I never said it was an unacceptable one. I made another comment elsewhere on this article, which supported ReactOS.
Just because I worry about something, doesn't mean I'm paralyzed with fear or that I want others to be.
How about being to sleep with a PC on 24/7?
Some people actually like the noise from their fans.
I know that I can't sleep unless my computer is on. I need the white noise produced by my fans in order to sleep. In fact, even if I'm not trying to sleep, I can't stand being in my room if the computer's off (which it rarely is, unless there's a power outage) because I'm so used to the white noise from its fans.
What does ReactOS bring to the table, if it's three generations behind Microsoft?
Well, once ReactOS development gets to an advanced enough level, I'd be able to play some of my favourite games without having to boot into Windows.
I'm not as concerned with commercial viability as I am with the ability to run Windows programs without having to use a proprietary OS. Whether or not it's a commercial success is really irrelevant. Look at Linux--it's nowhere near as commercially viable as Windows (and I'm not bashing Linux here--I love Linux, and it's my primary OS), but it's still a great OS.
Of course, ReactOS will only become advanced enough if there's a community supporting it...people in the OSS community saying that the idea of a Windows clone is useless can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people believe the concept is useless, and it gets abandoned, it will be useless. But it's a viable project, and shouldn't be discouraged.
I wouldn't be suprised to see it spark a national security investigation over the gathering threat these FS/OSS terrorists pose to our way of life!
Hmm...as much as many Slashdotters think that some ``anti-terrorist'' crusade against OSS is going to happen (over something, if not this--people have brought this up numerous times in various comments to earlier articles), I very seriously doubt it'll happen over something like this.
IMO, it would take something really big, like some kind of OSS-based attack against government computers (don't ask me how--I'm just throwing out an example) to cause something like that. Unless something huge happens, I don't think the US government could possibly sell a ``War on Open Source'' to the public.
Of course, I could just be a hopeless optimist, but there's really no precedent for something like this at all.
...I can't help but worry that Microsoft is going to screw them over. I think that the more ReactOS develops, the more likely we'll see an immoral patent-infringement lawsuit from Microsoft against ReactOS.
I use Coranto for my blog, plus the iSay addon as a commenting system and it works fine for me. Of course, it has relatively low traffic (and I'd like to keep it that way...I'm not putting my DynDNS name on /. -- I'm not suicidal), so I don't know how well it'd stand up to heavy usage.
Anyone else have any experiences with using Coranto (with or without iSay...iSay is alpha after all, and not entirely Free-as-in-speech), especially on a high-traffic server?
Comcast actually did something I agree with. I'm stunned.
Surgical strikes are a good idea--they stop the damn zombies without screwing over everyone else. Tho I think only blocking port 25 for zombies isn't going far enough.
IMO, Comcast should block the MAC addresses of spyware/virus infected zombies and send letters to these people, telling them that they'll only be unblocked if they can present proof that the virii/spyware are off their computers and that they've taken measures to ensure that it never happens again.
I mean Jesus - How hard (or how much more money would it have cost) to simply fucking NAT these idiot soccer moms running Windows ME.
You have any idea what kind of problems this would cause? Many servers only allow one connection per IP address...now imagine if several separate accounts on an ISP were behind a NAT. They'd all have the same IP, and their connections to so many sites would be blocked if even one person under the same NAT was downloading from them.
I'm a Comcast user, and I've played around with using Postfix to send mail--it's worked perfectly. Of course, it might not have used port 25...it's been a while since I had Postfix running, and I've since reformatted, so I don't remember. But it is possible to send mail from Comcast.
This is leading many to believe that it is an issue with the 2.6 kernel, rather than a specific distro.
Nope. I'm running Gentoo with 2.6.5 and I have no problems at all with dual-booting. And, for the record, my Windows partition runs Win2K Professional, one of the versions affected by this issue.
Your post also referred specifically to Mandrake 10 Official, not Community, but they both ran 2.6. I know Community doesn't have this problem, as I used it for a short time before switching to Gentoo. So if they both have 2.6, but the problem is only with Official, it can't be a 2.6 issue.
Could the bootloader be an issue? I use GRUB--what bootloader do the people who have this problem use? GRUB, LILO, or are the results mixed? If all of them use LILO, it could be a LILO issue.
Well, for one thing, this is a battle Microsoft has to fight on multiple fronts.
Compare fighting Linux to fighting Macintosh. To fight the Mac, MS pretty much only has to concern itself with competing against Apple (or as close to ``competing'' as MS can get).
To fight Linux, MS has to fight IBM, RedHat, Novell, and numerous smaller companies. That's where the difference lies.
Moral of the story: When someone with questionable political allegiance commits a crime (hosting of copyrighted internal memos), and when they do so in order to subvert the faith that otherwise loyal citizens would have in their leaders (an act that borders on honest-to-Gawd sedition), you may think you have a right to read those memos -- but whether you have such a right, you have a responsibility (to the State) not to read them.
Only members of duly-appointed election committees have a responsibility to read such memos. Unless you're one of them, you don't have a need to know. Those who downloaded this material without a need to know will presumably get what's coming to them.
And if those memos are true, then what this person did is a Good Thing. If there really is corruption in the government, then the people damn well have a right to know. ``The people'' as in the same people who will be affected if someone who didn't really win the vote ends up in office, and in many cases, the same voters whose votes may very well have been altered by this.
I'm honestly stunned that anyone here believes people should be prosecuted for reading memos that detail possible corruption in the elections process. I'll also link to another reply to your post, just because the AC who posted that hit the nail on the head, and really doesn't deserve his (or her) post being below most people's thresholds.
Dear Zod, I hope you were being sarcastic in your post. If so, I really have to congratulate you on showing via sarcasm and irony exactly why the government covering this up is wrong--your post used the same rationale that Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and countless other dictators used to justify the persecution of dissidents. If you weren't being sarcastic...well, then I'm just appalled at your fascistic sympathies.
SBC = (Something - Southern, maybe?) Bell Company, one of the Big Bells, provides service throughout the Midwest.
Well, SBC/SWBell has been the local phone provider in my area since I was born, so I should know this...
SBC used to be Southwestern Bell, up until 1998, when they officially shortened their name to just SBC--technically, it doesn't stand for anything now, but it sounds like it's supposed to be from Southwestern Bell Corporation. It wasn't even a common nickname for the company...they were usually called SWBell or SWB until the name change.
The name change came not long after they bought Pacific Bell, Ameritech, and Southern New England Telecommunications (actually, I didn't know this part until I looked it up on Wikipedia).
Half-life 2 is delayed, Doom 3 is delayed, the new Skyline GT-R is put off 2 years, and now I have to wait 20 years for this cool pill?
Hey, the pill will still be out before Duke Nukem Forever is. As an added bonus, it'll help you live longer, so you may very well be alive when DNF is released thanks to this pill.
What the hell is this?
I've been using the transparency in Konsole (KDE's terminal) since I switched to Linux over a year ago, and reading around, Konsole's had it for years. KDE has it in their KDE 2.x screenshots page (fourth screenshot from the top).
I recommend using freenews.netfront.net -- it's a public news server, has one of the highest newsgroup counts, allows posting, and allows binaries.
And use Thunderbird to read news--it's by far the best newsreader I've used.