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Liferea – The best Linux news reader | August 2, 2006
My search for the best news reading application for Linux is over. After trying out several applications like Straw, Akregator etc., I finally settled on Liferea. Liferea is a GTK based application which is ideal for the gnome desktop. Though it does not have features like discovering multiple feeds within a website, emailing posts etc., it serves its purpose as a basic yet powerful news reader. The obligatory screen shot is below (click to enlarge).
To install just do:
sudo apt-get install liferea
Most of the time, just giving the URL of the website is enough to add a feed!
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You obviously haven’t tried BlogBridge yet. It’s available for Linux and is the best feedread I’ve found. Makes Liferea look simple.
Link: http://www.blogbridge.com
It’s GPL and runs with JRE for cross platform compatibility. Enjoy it…I know I do.
Comment by devnet — August 9, 2006 @ 9:34 pm
You should have a look at Newshutch. too! It is a online news reader, advertisement free, fetches news fast and often (though there is no costumization for how often it should check and it preforms lovely on all Web browsers!
Comment by Aleksandersen — October 16, 2006 @ 8:54 am
@Aleksandersen
Yes. Newhutch is cool. Probably the best online news reader. But unfortunately, they don’t have a sync api and a mobile interface. That is what is preventing me from making it my primary news reader. Since it is still early days for them, these things probably are still work-under-progress and may be expected soon.
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Comment by Marsha — February 25, 2007 @ 1:37 am
Thanks for the tip. Just moved from Mac OSX to Linux & need all the advice I can get at the moment.
Comment by Toby — October 11, 2011 @ 3:44 pm
This is not a news reader.
Comment by Diego — June 21, 2012 @ 5:42 pm