# Slrn

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{{Short description|News reader software}}
{{Lowercase title}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = slrn
| logo                   =
| screenshot             = slrn.png
| caption                = slrn 0.9.8.0 screenshot
| collapsible            = 
| developer              = 
| released               = {{start date and age|1994}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q178589|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q178589|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q178589|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date    = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q178589|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language   = [C](/source/C_(programming_language))<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openhub.net/p/slrn|title = The SLRN newsreader Open Source Project on Open Hub}}</ref>
| operating system       = [Cross-platform](/source/Cross-platform) ([Unix-like](/source/Unix-like), [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows))
| genre                  = [News reader](/source/Newsreader_(Usenet))
| license                = [GPL-2.0-or-later](/source/GNU_General_Public_License)
| website                = {{URL|slrn.info}}
}}

'''slrn''' is a [console](/source/Console_application)-based [news client](/source/news_client) for multiple operating systems, developed by John E. Davis and others. It was originally developed in 1994 for [Unix-like](/source/Unix-like) [operating system](/source/operating_system)s and [VMS](/source/OpenVMS), and now also supports [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows). It supports [scoring rule](/source/scoring_rule)s to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their [header](/source/Header_(computing)). It is customizable, allows free [key-bindings](/source/Keyboard_shortcut) and can be extended using the [S-Lang](/source/S-Lang) macro language. [Offline](/source/Offline) reading is possible by using either slrnpull (included with slrn) or a local newsserver (like [leafnode](/source/leafnode) or [INN](/source/InterNetNews)). slrn is [free software](/source/free_software).

slrn was maintained by Thomas Schultz from 2000 to 2007, with the help of others who made contributions, but development is now again followed by the original author, John E. Davis. Current development focuses on better support for different [character sets](/source/character_encoding) and tighter integration of the S-Lang language processor. Version 1.0.0 of slrn was released on December 21, 2012, 18 years after the first release. The latest release is 1.0.3 on October 23, 2016. Historically slrn was the starting point for many [Usenet](/source/Usenet) users.<ref>{{Cite web
|url=https://alcor.concordia.ca/topics/netnews/slrn/intro/
|title=Introduction to Usenet News and the slrn Newsreader
|access-date=2015-10-04
|date=1995-01-20
|archive-date=2016-05-12
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512160602/http://alcor.concordia.ca/topics/netnews/slrn/intro/
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> slrn is still a compromise between features, resource usage and simplicity.<ref>{{Cite web 
|url=http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/reviewed-and-rated-the-best-linux-newsreaders-583539
|title=Reviewed and rated: the best Linux newsreaders
|date=2009-03-16
|accessdate=2015-10-04 }}</ref>

==Operation==
slrn is fully controlled with the keyboard, and new messages are composed with an external [text editor](/source/text_editor).

== Name ==
The slrn name derives from the use of [S-Lang](/source/S-Lang) and its function to read news.<ref>{{cite book|title=LINUX Network Toolkit|last=Sery|first=Paul G.|publisher=[John Wiley & Sons](/source/John_Wiley_%26_Sons)|year=1998|isbn=9780764531460|page=533}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[List of Usenet newsreaders](/source/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders)
*[Comparison of Usenet newsreaders](/source/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders)
*[List of free and open-source software packages](/source/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{sourceforge|slrn}}

{{FLOSS}}

Category:Free Usenet clients
Category:Software that uses S-Lang
Category:GNOME Applications
Category:Software using the GNU General Public License

{{network-software-stub}}

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