HowTo: Blam - RSS/RDF Feed Reader

There are a number of software list available for feed and news reader.

Here's one nice RSS/RDF feed reader tool you can install from your linux box.

Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to use and clean interface to stay up to date. Blam is currently being supported in Linux platform alone and is included with Fedora project as well.

From Blam latest verrsion, here are several newly added changes and fixes.

* HTTP authentication.
* Ignoring SSL certificate errors (upon request).
* Partial support for Atom 1.0.
* Open links with target="_blank".
* Relative links work.
* Theme setting (and the program) works for first-time users (broken in previous release).
* RSS feeds with work.
* The clipboard's content appears as the feed's address by default.
* Appear with the name 'blam' in process listings.

To read more of Blam version 2.0 release, go here.

INSTALLATION

Blam can easily be installed using yum

# yum -y install blam

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Try it!