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Akregator 'akregator' is a fast, lightweight, and intuitive feed reader program for KDE. It lets you browse quickly through hundreds of thousands of internet feeds quickly, efficiently, and in a familiar way. It is currently under an extended beta beta process, but is considered stable.

AmphetaDesk AmphetaDesk downloads syndication news and information and displays it on a fully customizable Web page.

Aub 'aub' downloads articles from newsgroups and decode them automatically. It is simple, well documented, and easy to use and configure. It handles multi-part postings, and both uuencoded and base64 encodings.

Brag Brag collects and assembles multipart binary attachements from newsgroups. It is best suited to run as a cron job. It supports for uuencode, MIME base64, and yenc encodings, NNTP authentication, non-default NNTP ports, and message filtering with accept/reject patterns. It can combine parts from different newsgroups or even different servers, and optionally saves message subjects.

ComicMan ComicMan downloads Web comics from the Internet to your hard drive. It remembers the last download for each title, so you won't get duplicates from running it multiple times. The application itself is a command line tool, but it comes with a graphical configuration tool and an editor for making new Web comic configuration files.

Evolution RSS Reader Plugin The Evolution RSS Reader Plugin enables support for RSS feeds in the Evolution mail reader. It includes full ATOM support.

FBReader FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux PDAs and desktop computers. FBReader currently works on Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and Linux desktop computers. FBReader supports several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, fb2, TCR (psion text), and plain text.

Feedparser Parses RSS and Atom feeds

Furius Micro Rss Furius Micro Rss is a small, lightweight and cross platform RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed reader, written in Python using the Gtk tool kit.

GNUS Gnus Network User Services (GNUS) is an email client and news reader for GNU Emacs. It is fully MIME-compliant and supports reading and composing messages using any charset that GNU Emacs support.

GNUsTicker GNUsTicker a GNOME panel applet RSS aggregator. It can feed RSS, RDF, etc. It is an RSS news ticker like the KNewsTicker for KDE, and may be extended for feeding from different sources (an example for a POP3 mail server is provided).

Gfeed 'gfeed' is an RSS feed reader for Gtk+ 2.0. It is designed to be a simple yet customizable reader, not an aggregator, which means it can easily integrate into a desktop. Its features include customizable "feed" files that describe a feed, full support for transparency (native to the app) under X.org 6.8 and higher, and automatic updating of feeds based on an interval defined in the feed file.

Gup gup, the Group Update Program, is a Unix mail-server that lets a remote site change their newsgroups subscription without requiring the intervention of the news administrator at the feed site. 'gup' is suited to news administrators that find they are spending an inordinate amount of time editing the INN newsfeeds file on behalf of the remote sites.

Jugtail jugtail is a tool for getting menu information from various gopher servers, acting as a search engine in a specified gopher sub-space. It is a modified version of Jonzy's popular gopher search tool.

Leafnode Leafnode is a news server designed for small sites, with a few tens of readers and only a slow link to the net. It uses very little disk space and bandwidth compared to other servers, is easily configured and maintained, and tries very hard to recover automatically from error situations. Each article is stored in a separate file. There are six programs, three essential and several add-ons. The essentials are leafnode (NNTP server-- talks to news clients and stores readership data); fetchnews (NNTP news-gatherer-- looks at stored readership data and selects groups to pull news from); and texpire, which deletes old and uninteresting news. Add-ons are applyfilter (deletes articles fitting a certain pattern); checkgroups (inserts newsgroup titles into the database; newsq (shows which news are waiting to be transferred to your upstream server).

MN MyNews perl module contains Perl object classes to manage the data of MyNews. It can handle PostgreSQL and MySQL backends. It has an API for CGI access to MyNews data.

Mantra Mantra is a centralized, Web-based newsreader. It uses a PostgreSQL database to store overview and cache information and features SQL, NIS and, LDAP users support, article scoring, RDF/RSS, usage statistics, online logs, and more.

Microbrew Microsieve Microbrew MicroSieve is a high speed spam filter for USENET news. Given the large amount of spam riding around in major USENET news systems, a spam filter has to be very fast and remain effective. It checks for duplicate and large articles, spambots, and binaries in non-binary groups. It also has path-based auto-accept and auto-reject, as well as cross-post limiting.

MyNews MyNews is a program that scans selected Web sites for recent news. News items are stored in a database. MyNews users can subscribe to Web sites to receive email when recent news items have been added. The package also provides mydoc script to rebuild MyNews documentation.

Mynews-www 'MyNews-www' is a set of Perl CGI scripts to access news stored in a MyNews server and to manage Web site subscriptions.