Before I have read the news feeds I am inter­ested in via the Fire­fox plu­gin “brief”. It did all I wanted it to do, but I had all the data and meta­data (all the feeds and read items) only in one browser. I was not able to have a shared state at work and at home.

Now I installed rnews on my web­server. It is multi-user capa­ble, so that mul­ti­ple peo­ple can read the feeds they are inter­ested in, with­out the need to have mul­ti­ple instal­la­tions. I can use it from any place where I have an inter­net con­nec­tion, with­out los­ing the state.

It is in the FreeBSD Ports Col­lec­tion as www/rnews.

1.  Ben Grimm from Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Says:
   August 26th, 2010 at 12:21

   I have to say that no local RSS reader that I tried (Brief was nice, but quite CPU-intensive) matches up to Google Reader. I know keep­ing ser­vices local is sec­ond nature to us open source peo­ple, but in all hon­esty: can’t fault the Google RSS service ..

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2.  Bernhard Fröhlich from Steiermark, Austria Says:
   August 26th, 2010 at 13:10

   There is also Tiny Tiny RSS which is a lot like Google Reader and also multi user capable.

   http://tt-rss.org/

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3.  Thierry Thomas from Ile-de-France, France Says:
   August 26th, 2010 at 16:34

   I have a port of Tiny Tiny RSS almost ready to be com­mit­ted, if some­one is interested.

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