The NOFFLE News Server



Features

NOFFLE is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running on the local host, but gets its news feed by acting as a client to a remote server. NOFFLE is written for the Linux operating system and freely available under GPL.

While Online:

While Offline:

Compatibility with News Clients

Subscribing to groups in full mode should work with any news reader. Caching of articles is unnecessary, since NOFFLE already caches them and should be switched off.

Subscribing to groups in overview mode or thread mode requires the following from the news reader program:

Getting NOFFLE

NOFFLE can be downloaded from this web site.
noffle-1.0pre5.tar.gz (current release, 18 Apr 2000)
noffle-1.0pre4.tar.gz (current release, 13 Nov 1999)
RPM packages have been created by Mario Moder. They are available at
ftp://ftp.fbam.de/pub/linux/

[NEW] I moved Noffle to SourceForge recently. You can download files from the Noffle project page. There is also a mailing list and a discussion forum.

Documentation

Read the files README and INSTALL from the package for compiling and installing NOFFLE on your system.

Some German documentation ([Deutsch] "NOFFLE Installation") is provided by Klaus Mödinger.

The current version is still beta. Please send bug reports, comments and patches to markus.enzenberger@t-online.de.

Links


Last modified 4/2000, Markus Enzenberger