A Linux feedreader called Newsbeuter
Named after a pun on the German word Wildbeuter, which means Hunter Gatherer, the Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text consoles. Newsbeuter was designed to be used on text terminals operating on Unix and Unix-like systems – like BSD, Linux and Mac OS X. Newsbeuter can be downloaded here and instructions on how to install can be read here.
The Newsbeuter application includes the following new features:
1) Tagging
2) Scripts and Filters
3) Command Line
4) Filter Language
5) Killfiles
6) Query Feeds
7) Podcast Support
Newsbeuter was developed by Andreas Krennmair . According to Krennmair in an article he submitted at Debian Package of the Day.
A few other text-mode RSS feedreaders beside newsbeuter exist. The most prominent ones are Snownews and raggle. Both Snownews and raggle have in common that they are no longer under active development. Snownews itself is hard to maintain and extend, and raggle is relatively slow (even on new, fast computers), because it is purely implemented in the Ruby scripting language. Especially Snownews lacks a lot of features compared to newsbeuter, such as support for the Atom XML format and HTTPS support.
One goal of newsbeuter development was to build a feed reader that does not only fix the deficiencies of the existing tools and integrate all the useful features, but that is also easily extensible. This goal has been achieved, and now development is aiming at more advanced features: future releases will contain a flexible and extensible bookmarking support, improved support for notification frameworks such as Growl, and synchronization with web RSS feed readers such as Bloglines.[Source]
