A look at some free RSS readers

“Like many people, I get almost all of my news online. To get it
quickly and efficiently, I use a newsreader to skim the RSS or Atom
feeds from sites (like LWN) that I find useful. Until recently, I’d
been using Google Reader as the best option to manage and read my
feeds — but after hearing about the Mutt of newsreaders, I
decided to skim the open source options for news reading to see if
I could make the switch.

“The first on my list was Newsbeuter. The name is a play on
“Wildbeuter,” which is German for “hunter-gatherer,” which seems
apt enough for how one forages for information today. Newsbeuter is
a text-based newsreader that bears more than a passing resemblance
to Mutt, not just in appearance but also in configurability. I also
found it interesting because it offered synchronization with Google
Reader — meaning that it should be a simple thing to maintain
my existing feeds without any real hassle.”

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