What is Gnus?

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In depth

A closer look at Gnus

Gnus is a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented as a part of Emacs. It's been around in some form for over 6 years now, and has been distributed as a standard part of Emacs for much of that time. Gnus 5 is the latest (and greatest) incarnation. The original version was called GNUS, and was written by Masanobu UMEDA. When autumn crept up in '94, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen grew bored and decided to rewrite Gnus.

Its biggest strength is the fact that it is extremely customizable. It is somewhat intimidating at first glance, but most of the complexity can be ignored until you're ready to take advantage of it. If you receive a reasonable volume of e-mail (you're on various mailing lists), or you would like to read high-volume mailing lists but cannot keep up with them, then you definitely want to investigate Gnus for reading mail.

Verdict

Should you download Gnus?

Gnus runs on Linux and is available under the Not Specified license — the installer is 0 KB. We’ve catalogued it under News.

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Gnus specifications

Category: News
Publisher: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Last updated: Mar 1, 2025
License: Not Specified
Operating system: Linux
File size: 0 KB
Price: Free
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