Comments on: Linux + offline Feed Reader = Liferea

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:58:10 +0000

I was using Akregator on Kubuntu, it suited all of my purposes really well, except for wanting to access the list anywhere. I think at the moment you either need to compromise the usability and accessability, I don’t really want to use my reader through my internet browser. Although Sage was pretty good when it came to that, although again, not accessible from everywhere.
I changed to Ubuntu and Akregator seemed to work fine, I’ve installed Liferea to compare though since Akregator was meant for KDE.
Thanks for the tip.

By: A Fool's Wisdom

A Fool's Wisdom — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:35:45 +0000

All praise the Wikipedia benevolent rulers!…

I am discouraged, unlike Vera an article I found useful not only was nominated for deletion, but actually deleted. List of news aggregators was found lacking and deleted. On the discussion page for this article, Harro5 wrote:
The article went through …

By: TechCrunch for the Open Source Desktop? at A Fool’s Wisdom

TechCrunch for the Open Source Desktop? at A Fool’s Wisdom — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 05:00:40 +0000

[...] Luis spells it out beautifully! I don’t think we are alone considering one of my top read articles is Linux + offline Feed Reader = Liferea. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 May 2006 04:12:49 +0000

Actually, Vienna looks quite promising for Mac.

Maybe I’m just getting old and worn out, but I’m no longer much of an open source purist. I’ll buy the occasional piece of shareware if it performs a useful function and the price is reasonable (I prefer buying from independent developers, but I made an exception for NNW since Brent used to be indie and is still a very accessible guy, plus his software rocks).

By: foolswisdom

foolswisdom — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:43:11 +0000

The Liferea developer Lars Lindner wrote me that “Liferea is available for Cygwin and some while ago it was compiled for MacOS too.”

That is a great start, but neither are mom friendly.

By: foolswisdom

foolswisdom — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:22:31 +0000

Thank you Waldo Jaquith for your comments. I found your article “RSS for total newbies” to be great.

Interesting use of Thunderbird. I have never got the hang of USB-based live data storage.

If some of the data lives on the web, then if I want, my data should be able to live on the web, hence:

+9. Feed reading from anywhere

I know that Peter Andrew, the Sage lead developer, agrees with you that Thunderbird’s, a mail client, features don’t map cleanly to feed reading. I find my workflow to be quite similar without the activity of publishing (sending emails). To me, it feels like feed reading has not been integrated into Thunderbird, only casually put on top.

The Mozilla platform is the nature choice for a cross-platform feed reader, I look forward to one that:

6. Allow me to read feeds while offline