RSS and how it works

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Jul 29 14:20:03 UTC 2005


Andrew Overholt wrote:

>> > Also, does Fedora come with a "news aggregator" software or whatever it
>> > is to use RSS feeds?
>> 
>> Yes: Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
>> 
>> Also there is liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) in
>> fedora-extras.
> 
> And hopefully pretty soon we'll have RSSOwl in FE:
> 
> http://rssowl.org

I get RSS feeds in Firefox.
What advantages would other RSS aggregators have over this?

I find it very convenient that I get RSS within my default browser;
any other source would have to have considerable advantages.
 

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