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Reading feeds efficiently with Akregator (Linux.com)

[Posted June 26, 2006 by cook]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier investigates the RSS and Atom feed reader Akregator on Linux.com. "Information overload is a serious problem for most users. We all have so many sources of information to deal with, it's hard to keep them under control. One way to help deal with information glut is to use a good RSS and Atom feed reader, such as Akregator. One of the reasons I decided to start using Akregator is that I noticed the Sage extension for Firefox would throw an "XML Parse Error" on a few feeds that other readers -- like Akregator -- handle just fine. For example, Sage gives me an error on the Kubuntu feed, but Akregator parses it just fine."

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Posted Jun 26, 2006 19:44 UTC (Mon) by frhart (subscriber, #26508) [Link]

I've used liferea and a few other GUI tools but now I'm more than happy with rss2email. It has two big advantages:

- it doesn't matter anymore where I read the feeds; they are always in sync because they're only deliverd once to my imap server. Before you would use a different client from each location
- not another client to get used to. Just plain old Mutt.

Only problem is that lately the process somtimes kept on running, so after a couple of days there were quite a few of them.