Free news scroller software for linux

News Spotter is a desktop utility which fosters an addiction to current events. Is a rss reader which automatically monitors news feeds. .Most of the time, News Spotter sits quietly on the left or right side of your screen. But when a new headline is identified from one of its monitored web sites, News Spotter graphically displays the headline as a hyperlink. When you click on the headline, News Spotter opens the corresponding URL in your default browser.
Main features:
- minimalist user interface
- is very simple to use it and very functional

News Script allows you to write articles for your website. News Script features a WYSIWYG editor which makes writing an article easy and it supports search engine friendly URLs.
Main features:
- Write, edit and delete text articles
- Use the built-in WYSIWYG editor for formatting
- Create search engine friendly URLs
- List and search in existing articles
- Completely template driven
- Installation routine
How the script works
As the admin you can write new articles and list, edit, delete and search in existing ones.
News script features a WYSIWYG editor that gives you full control over the format of an article. JavaScript is required, though. The script allows you to choose an article date and the date when the article is to be published.
The title of an article appears as part of the URL which is good for search engine optimization. In case your server supports mod_rewrite the article URL looks like a normal URL of an HTML page.
On the front end the visitor will be provided with a list of published articles. As admin you can set the number of articles per page which results in several result pages which can be browsed by the visitor.

PHP News Ticker is a news ticker that is easy to manage, easy to add to, and easy to purge old news from. PHP News Ticker project allows HTML and small images to be inserted. Its a horizontal scroller, so it does not display big pictures attractively.

***first, go through the admin/config.php

and change the following:

host, dbuser, dbpass, dbname

***create a table on a db with the following colums:

id (int)6 AUTO INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY
message (VARCHAR)9000 NOT NUL

*** copy and paste from the sample_script.php what you need, changing what has been annotated to be changed.

*** upload files to http://"your-site.com"/news leaving the folder structure unchanged

*** Log into the admin area to test script by going to http://"your-site.com"/news/admin no username needed, just the password that you setup in the config.php file.

Esselbach Storyteller is a Content Management System designed for high-traffic Web sites. It features a caching system, image uploading with a thumbnail function, and templates and custom fields. The user database can be used with vBulletin, UBB.threads, phpBB, Invision Board, and Burning Board.
Main features:
- Multiple websites
- Manage up to 99 websites under the same admin interface.
- Caching system for heavy traffic websites
- Instead of querying the database server each time, the system is caching all HTML content on the file system. This is extremely fast and efficient.
- XML import and export
- Share and exchange news with other websites. Import news via XML/RSS newsfeeds with a few mouse clicks.
- Mail import
- Import your news@yourdomain emails directly to the news queue. No need to use an email program for your news.
- Image upload features
- Upload images to your news, articles, FAQs, and downloads. Add uploaded images with an easy point and click interface.
- Highly adaptable because of templates and custom fields
- Easily change the layout to fit your website. You can even add PHP snippets to your templates for maximum customization. Add additional fields into your news, downloads, and FAQ.
- Integration with 3rd party applications
- Share the user database with the following 3rd party forum applications: vBulletin 2.2/2.3/3.0/3.5, UBB.threads 6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5, phpBB 2.0, Invision Power Board 1.1/1.2/1.3/2.0/2.1, Burning Board 1.2/2.0/2.3, Burning Board Lite, MyBB 1.0, UseBB 0.7, Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1, and PunBB 1.2. No need to register twice.
- Import your old news database
- Import scripts available for PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, NewsPro, Coranto, News Publisher 1.0, and Greymatter.
- Ready for the future
- Runs perfectly with register_globals = off and enabled PHP safe mode. Supports also the new MySQL 4.0 InnoDB tables and fulltext search right out of the box.

Newsx is an NNTP client for Unix. It connects to remote NNTP servers and receives incoming and outgoing articles
Newsx is also well suited for large spools with normal feeds, being used for pulling newsgroups from specific NNTP servers that are not distributed in the usual manner. Since newsx obeys the normal news spool configuration file and requires little or no specific configuration, the administrative burden should be minimized.
Main features:
- compatible with C News and INN local news servers
- configuration relies on standard C News and INN mechanisms for setting up newsservers and newsgroups
- setting of which newsgroups will be exchanged with which remote server based on sys or newsfeeds files, making administration easy
- logging of errors that occurred, as well as article transfer statistics
- optional log file for actual articles posted, and collection of posted articles in folders
- has been designed to be nice, so as not to overload the remote news server
- uses only standard RFC-977 functions, so should be compatible with the vast majority of news servers
- comprehensive error recovery for posting as well as for fetching; failed postings will be retried at the next opportunity, while fetching will resume at the point where it stopped
- refers to news history database to prevent fetching of articles already in the local spool. will not fetch crossposted articles more than once. does not rely on Xref, since many sites does not provide it.
- interface to popular news filters like Cleanfeed
Pulling news
News transfer via fetching to local news spools is sometimes claimed to be an inefficient way of transferring news compared to connecting newsreaders directly to the remote NNTP server.
The fact of the matter is that if set up and used correctly, exactly the opposite is the case.
A local news spool allows news transfer to occur at off-peak hours, thereby decreasing the host server load in the critical period. This will tie up less modems at peak hours, as well as decreasing the connect time since the actual transfer will run much quicker.
A fetch based system is also easier to administrate then the feeding kind, since every site decides for itself what groups it will exchange with whom. The major down-side is that article propagation times will be longer. For sites that are leafs in the news distribution tree, this is usually not very important.
Much of the problems connected with news pulling is connected to the use of the RFC-977 NEWNEWS command. Most news servers has implemented this command in an inefficient manner, which will put severe loads on the newsserver. Newsx does not use NEWNEWS.

Newsleech is a non-interactive rfc977 compliant news retriever. The commandline user interface is simple yet powerful. Newsleech is a powerfull and simple commandline newsreader. It is entirely written in C and it should be reasonably portable. Newsleech can understand scripts in addition to commandline options.
Main features:
- can retrieve news messages by means of a simple and powerful command line interface
- it can, in one run, visit several servers with several newsgroups with several sets ofarticles
- can concatenate this sets of articles and send the result to stdout, a file or a pipe
- can recieve its commands also from a script
Version restrictions:
- the program will never interpret any of the messages it receives

tNews provides a PHP4 template-based news script with a full Web-based administration system.

tNews is a set of PHP4 scripts designed to provide easy-to-use basic news headline support for websites. The system uses HTML-based templates to specify formatting of news pages, providing complete control of page appearance to the webmaster.

The systems backend is provided by a MySQL database, and support is included for generation of both news and old news pages. News HTML pages are only regenerated when changes are made to news headlines, so end users suffer no delays caused by database access or parsing of scripting code.

All administration and setup is done through a Web-based interface, so no editing of text files is required.

MyNews provides a Web news grabber.

MyNews is a program that scans selected Web sites for recent news. News items are stored in a database.#

MyNews users can subsribe to Web sites to receive email when recent news items have been added. The MyNews script requires the MN Perl module.