Projects

Liferea

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for Gtk/Gnome.

LeechCraft

LeechCraft is a free open source cross-platform modular internet-client. LeechCraft allows to browse the web, read RSS/Atom feeds, download files via BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP, automatically download, play or stream podcasts (and other media files) and much more.

Entertainer Media Center

Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using object-oriented programming paradigm. It uses gstreamer multimedia framework for multimedia playback. User Interface is implemented ... [More] with Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces. Entertainer also uses other great projects like SQLite and iNotify for caching media libraries. [Less]

Canto

A Python based, highly extensible ncurses RSS/Atom feed reader, based on feedparser.

AnchorBot

AnchorBot is a Feed Reader that wants you to read the important news first!

quite-rss

RSS/Atom feed reader

frothing

Frothing (Feed Reading On The Hoof) is a news aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but some are not available for mobile Linux devices or require many extra libraries to be installed. Frothing tries to fill this gap by creating a fast and easy to use news ... [More] aggregator for mobile Linux handheld devices InstallationFor now, to install Frothing you need to compile it inside a Hildon compatible desktop environment. To create such an environment have a look at the Moblin site or the Maemo site Frothing was originally created for the Ubuntu Mobile Guide as an example of how to port an application written in C to the Ubuntu Mobile Edition. This guide is available online here and is good to read for background information. UME Maemo Compiling from SourceEither check out the source from svn or grab the tarball to compile The source can be checked out from the repositories by: svn checkout http://frothing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ frothing The tarball can be downloaded from the project page and extracted by: tar zxvf frothing-.tar.gz After unpacking/checking out the code, run the standard autotools commands inside your target: ./configure --enable-hildon make make install DependenciesOn Ubuntu the dependencies can be satisfied by: apt-get install libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev libxml-perl libxslt1-dev libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libhildondesktop-dev xulrunner Maemo NotesThanks to Chris Malley libgtkhtml2-0 and libgtkhtml2-0-dev are not available (yet?) in the maemo repositories so you need to apt-get the source from debian/ubuntu and build it inside scratchbox with --disable-accessibility Also you need to add AC_CHECK_LIB(gthread-2.0, g_thread_init) into configure.ac and do a aclocal/autoconf/autoheader/automake To Do- Create armel and X86 debs - Create Maemo One Click Installer [Less]

AmphetaDesk

AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator. It sits on the desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable) Web page.