Free newsfeeds software for linux

Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local server; INN, s-news and sn are supported, and it should be easy to adapt for other servers with some configuration and extra scripts. Its designed for Unix-like systems, and all the development was done on Linux.

There are already plenty of other programs to do this, but what makes newsstar special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 threads. Before fetching each article it checks that it hasnt already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also pipeline article requests to make better use of available bandwidth.

I wrote it because a number of ISPs I have used suffer from unreliable newsfeeds. There is an excellent free server made available by news.individual.net, but it can be a bit slow at times, and using external servers uses more bandwidth. Therefore I wanted a program which could fetch whatever articles my ISP has available, but use the foreign server to avoid missing posts or getting them very late, and to do it as fast as possible.

This project is distributed under the GPL.

RSS Viewer is a comfortable and portable viewer for RSS/RDF-compatible newsfeeds. It is written completely in Java and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Rss Viewer is proven to run on Windows, Linux and MacOS X. Other Java enabled platforms should work as well.
Main features:
- multiple views for everyones taste
- built-in HTML article preview
- external browser support
- drag and drop
- article database

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators" RSSOwl is such an application.
RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.
Its easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: Its platform-independent.
RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") is a document specification that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and information in a more efficient manner.
The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and a quiet, efficient hunter. Youll find RSSOwls "big eyes" a big help when scanning the Webs vast array of RSS sources.
Main features:
- Import your favorite newsfeeds using the OPML format. Most newsreaders support the export of newsfeeds via OPML, making it very easy to switch to RSSOwl and have your bookmarked favorites inside RSSOwl.
- Bookmark your favorite newsfeeds in nested categories. Set properties like "auto-update-interval", "open on startup" or "reload on startup".
- RSSOwl helps you finding a suitable title for your favorites. Just click the "Grab title from newsfeed" button and RSSOwl will scan the newsfeed for the title and use it for the new favorite.
- Create collections of newsfeeds other may subscribe to. A subscription is a file that contains newsfeeds. Placing the subscription online will allow others to subscribe to that collection and have the same newsfeeds inside RSSOwl. The subscription is updated each time RSSOwl is starting.
- Switch on the internal browser to read news that contain HTML. Some newsfeeds use this kind of technique to include images and links.
- Select a newsfeed, a single news or an entire category of newsfeeds to export the content into one of the formats PDF, RTF or HTML. When exporting news into PDF, RSSOwl will create bookmarks showing the titles of all news. These are very helpfull when searching for a particular news inside the PDF document.
- RSSOwls internal panels are highly customizable. Choose between a 2-column and a 3-column layout. Hide and restore the tree containing all favorites and the quickview box. Maximize the tabfolder with a single click in order to view a website inside the internal browser with full size.
- A lot of search-options make RSSOwl a powerful application to search inside a newsfeed or an entire category. The boolean operators "and", "or" and "not" may be combined with the search-term. Common options to only match a whole word, regard case-sensitivity or to use regular expressions are allowed. Results are displayed in the tabfolder and each keyword is highlighted inside the newstext.
- AmphetaRate is a centralized ratings/recommendation service that provides personalized news and blog recommendations. Each news found in your subscribed feeds may be rated "Fantastic", "Good", "Moderate", "Bad" and "Very bad". Your recommendations are computed by Bayesian filtering and an algorithm finding people who share your taste.
- The integrated newsfeed-search engine allows to search for newsfeeds by keyword. Simply enter words like "News" or "Linux" and press the search button. Soon the engine will give out a list of newsfeeds. It is also possible to restrict the search to only match newsfeeds that have the same language that RSSOwl has set. Once the search has finished, import all of them into any category with a single click.
- Tired of copying and pasting newsfeeds out of a website into your newsreader? Simply enter the website containing links to newsfeeds into the feed-discovery and RSSOwl will show all the newsfeeds it has found. Import them into any category with a single click. Or enter the URL to an OPML file and gain access to its newsfeeds - its a breeze!
- The integrated feedvalidator allows to check the validity of a newsfeed. Any error or warning is shown inside the validator, together with the line-number. This feature makes the perfect tool for bloggers as theyre able to test their newsfeeds. RSSOwl provides support for RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 straight "out of the box".
- Access password protected newsfeeds. RSSOwl 1.0 is supporting the Base authentication which is the original and most compatible authentication scheme. But be prepared for RSSOwl 1.1 coming soon which will also support Digest and NTLM authentication that was introduced with HTTP 1.1.
- A small toolbar above the tree containing all favorites allowes to execute the commands "Reload All Favorites", "Aggregate All Favorites", "Search in all Favorites" and "Mark All Favorites Read". Believe us, its a handy feature. :-)
- Place RSSOwl into the system tray on minimization. As soon as RSSOwl is reloading a newsfeed and detects that new, unread news are available it will tell you so.
- RSSOwl is highly customizable. "Preferences" allow to change fonts, languages, colors, hotkeys and a lot more. Export settings into a file to import them into RSSOwl on a different computer. Switch fonts or make yourself comfortable with RSSOwl by choosing one of the 25 languages available - everything is just a few clicks away!

Epiphany Extensions package contains extension for Epiphany software.

How to choose which extensions to build:

./configure --with-extensions=ext1,ext2,...

where ext1, ext2 ... are one of the following:

actions Perform actions on links from the context menu
adblock Block content based on its URL
auto-scroll Auto scroll on middle mouse clicks
auto-reload Reload a tab periodically
bookmarks-tray Add bookmarks menu to the panel
certificates Display SSL certificates
dashboard Send cluepackets to Dashboard
error-viewer Error Viewer dialog [i.e., Javascript, HTML errors]
extensions-manager-ui GUI to enable and disable Epiphany extensions
favicon Loads /favicon.ico if the page doesnt specify one
gestures Mouse gestures
greasemonkey Load mozilla greasmonkey scripts
imagebar Display a toolbar over images
java-console Provide access to the Java-Plugin Console
livehttpheaders Display HTTP headers
net-monitor Monitor the network status and set offline mode accordingly
page-info Show information about the current page
permissions Manage web site permissions
push-scroller Scroll by holding the middle mouse button and pushing
python-console Opens an interactive Python console
rss Subscribe to newsfeeds contained in web pages
select-stylesheet Switch between alternate stylesheets
sidebar Adds a sidebar to Epiphany
smart-bookmarks Right-click on selected text to search the Web for it
tab-groups Open new tabs to the right of the current one
tab-states Indicates unread tabs in the tab label
tabsmenu Tabs menu entries to move tabs across windows

all All of the above extensions

sample Sample extension [use this as a template]
sample-mozilla Sample extension using Mozilla API [use as a template]

really-all All of the above extensions (including samples)

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.

Opera 9.64 / 10.00 Beta Build 4453 offers you a powerful and very convenient tool which is an easy way to help you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way with Opera browser. The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, E-mail, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. Opera supports all major Linux distributions. RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, etc. Intel, PowerPC and Sparc versions.

The InterNetNews package (INN) is a complete Usenet system. It includes innd, an NNTP server, and nnrpd, a newsreading server. INN separates hosts that feed you news from those that have users reading news. INN was originally written by Rich Salz (grab the USENIX paper Rich wrote about it here). ISC took over development of INN in 1996 after Rich was unable to continue supporting it and many variants of the software were forming.
If you are interested in receiving notice of future releases of INN, send a subscribe message to inn-announce-request@isc.org to get on the announcements mailing list. At this time, ISC regrets that we do not have the resources to offer support or training on the INN software. As partnerships in this area develop, we will post updated information here.
A news server performs three basic functions: it accepts articles from other servers and stores them on disk, sends articles it has received out to other servers, and offers stored news articles to readers on demand. It additionally has to perform some periodic maintenance tasks, such as deleting older articles to make room for new ones.
Normally a news server just stores all of the news articles it had received in a file system. Users could then read news by reading the article files on disk (or more commonly using news reading software that did this efficiently). These days, news servers are almost always stand-alone systems and news reading is supported via network connections. A user who wants to read a newsgroup opens that newsgroup in their newsreader software, which opens a network connection to the news server d sends requests for articles and related information. The protocol that a newsreader uses to talk to a news server and that a news server uses to talk to another news server over TCP/IP is called NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol).
INN supports accepting articles via either NNTP connections or via UUCP. innd, the heart of INN, handles NNTP feeding connections directly; UUCP newsfeeds use rnews (included in INN) to hand articles off to innd. Other parts of INN handle feeding articles out to other news servers, most commonly innfeed (for real-time outgoing feeds) or nntpsend and innxmit (used to send batches of news created by innd to a remote site via TCP/IP). INN can also handle outgoing UUCP feeds.
The part of INN that handles connections from newsreaders is nnrpd.
Also included in INN are a wide variety of supporting programs to handle periodic maintenance and recovery from crashes, process special control messages, maintain the list of active newsgroups, and generate and record a staggering variety of statistics and summary information on the usage and performance of the server.
INN also supports an extremely powerful filtering system that allows the server administrator to reject unwanted articles (such as spam and other abuses of Usenet).
INN is free software, supported by Internet Systems Consortium and volunteers around the world. See "Supporting the INN Effort" below.
Enhancements:
- nnrpd/group.c: Return the correct 0 0 0 response to LISTGROUP when the group is empty rather than returning no such group.
- authprogs/libauth.c: Set the length of the IPv4 sockets on platforms with a sin_len element in struct sockaddr. Reported by Gea-Suan Lin
- scripts/innreport_inn.pm: Ignore or parse some log messages from newer versions, just for better news.notice parsing when bouncing between versions.