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Source code

Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. Zed Shaw called it "The Mutt of Feed Readers". make -j5 PROFILE=1 all test (cd test && TMPDIR=/dev/shm ./test --order rand) Note the use of ramdisk as TMPDIR : some of our tests require temporary files, which degrades the performance quite a bit if TMPDIR isn't in-memory. Newsbeuter is licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. See the file LICENSE for further details.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
free software
Official website
www.newsbeuter.org
Image
Newsbeuter.png
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operating system
Linux
depends on software
ncurses
programmed in
C++
Commons category
Newsbeuter
GUI toolkit or framework
ncurses
software version identifier
0.1
inception
2007-01-16
source code repository URL
github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter
language of work or name
Ukrainian
software quality assurance
continuous integration
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Newsbeuter was a text-based news aggregator for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Andreas Krennmair in 2007 and released under the MIT License. The program is aimed at power users and strives to be "" It supports the major feed formats including RSS and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in the OPML format. Newsbeuter (podbeuter) also supports podcasting and synchronization. As of 2017, the project is no longer maintained; the original developers advise users to switch to Newsboat, an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter.

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