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.
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 ..
There is also Tiny Tiny RSS which is a lot like Google Reader and also multi user capable.
http://tt-rss.org/
I have a port of Tiny Tiny RSS almost ready to be committed, if someone is interested.