Newts

Newts is a software implementation of the notesfiles concept which seeks to amalgamate the features of Usenet with that of bulletin boards. This concept was first developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the late 1970s. Newts has been designed to closely mimic the same functionality as the Unix port of notesfiles from UIUC and is compatible with the data files utilized by that port.

The software has been written specifically for Unix-like systems and can be run on various Linux distributions, Mac OS X as well as other Unix variants. Newts is an actively-maintained software project that is continuously evolving. This means that the software is adaptable enough to serve its users better.

Future versions of the software will boast of an additional daemon that manages multiple local and network connections, as well as additional backends and clients. This makes the software even more versatile for its users.

The latest version of Newts includes bug fixes on various memory issues and segfaults in its utilities and main client. A new client API has also been introduced in this release, although it is still at the draft stage and isn't yet recommended for public use.