HowTo: Snownews - RSS/RDF Newsreader

If you read news and feeds from console (CLI) or via text mode, here is another entry for text-based RSS/RDF news reader for linux.

Snownews is a text mode (console) RSS/RDF newsreader. Snownews supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins. Snownews depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should work with any version of libxml2.

Snownews Installation

# yum -y install snownews

Snownews provides you a clean and sleek reading of news and feeds while bringing you the comfort of CLI user environment. The application operations are closely similar to text-based applications like more, less, vi, pico - these CLI based linux applications. Shortcut keys and viewing pane makes it also text-based user friendly. Snownews features as feed and news reader does come as clean and simple using a very small memory footprints that specially fits low end systems.

A more suggested usage and application help of Snownews RSS/RDF reader is nicely discussed here. SnowNews