Everything, of course, is keyboard-driven and once you have the keystrokes down you can skim through feeds very quickly and efficiently. You drill down by feed or using tags (more on that shortly) to sort the feeds or articles you want to display. The display for Newsbeuter is much like Mutt - when you open Newsbeuter, all the feeds are displayed in a long list that includes the number of articles available and how many are read/unread. Newsbeuter doesn't support commenting on articles through Google Reader, however, but truly dedicated users can follow this guide by Aaron Toponce to use Newsbeuter and Mutt to add comments to items shared through Google Reader. These work, but it requires editing the Newsbeuter configuration file and setting up "flags" for starring and saving. If you share an article in Google Reader it can be seen by any of the people "following" your account (an attempt by Google to dip into social networking). The release notes for Newsbeuter say that it supports not only syncing with Google Reader, but also the sharing and starring features in Reader. I started with my Google Reader account and found that Newsbeuter works as advertised - albeit with a bit of work. Note that Newsbeuter also supports Bloglines, but I don't have an active Bloglines account. That release has some issues with Google Reader sync, so if you're on Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-derived distribution and want Reader support you'll need to compile from source. Note that 2.3 is packaged for Fedora, but not for Ubuntu which still carries the 2.2 release. The 2.3 release of Newsbeuter was released in June, so I compiled that and set to work. I also found it interesting because it offered synchronization with Google Reader - meaning that it should be a simple thing to maintain my existing feeds without any real hassle. Newsbeuter is a text-based newsreader that bears more than a passing resemblance to Mutt, not just in appearance but also in configurability. The name is a play on "Wildbeuter," which is German for "hunter-gatherer," which seems apt enough for how one forages for information today. Newsreaders, I decided to skim the open source options for news reading to see if I could make the switch. Reader as the best option to manage and read my feeds - but after To get it quicklyĪnd efficiently, I use a newsreader to skim the RSS or Atom feeds from Like many people, I get almost all of my news online. This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.
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