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Re: good RSS feed reader for amd64?



2008/1/6, Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a good feed reader for amd64?
> I've been using claws-mail-rssyl; it, however, has some bugs that seem
> to show up mostly on amd64 and rarely on i386.  (They don't show up at
> all on Linux, which makes me suspect that they're thread-related.  I
> still hope to find them, but I haven't yet.)  I've also used liferea;
> however, it uses libgtkhtml2 as its rendering engine and the developers
> of liferea say that that just doesn't work on amd64.  I tried it; it
> crashed any time I tried doing anything...  The best choice for a
> rendering engine for liferea appears to be xulrun; apart from the
> fact that it's not in pkgsrc, the web pages for it make it seem
> unappealing (stable has lots of security holes, and the development
> version is a moving target.)  I've also built a proto-package for straw,
> but apart from the fact that it has some dbus-related peculiarities, I
> don't like the way it looks.
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>


Steven, Thunderbird handles RSS feeds very well.

Zafer.



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