Linux RSS reader using the detailed instructions

The network content "pushes" the technology is the new generation Internet development inevitable trend. It provides a lot of convenience for information publishers and receivers, and greatly reduces the cost of information flow.

The advent of RSS has changed the spread of Internet content. The internet is an exciting and giddy place. Users often encounter two big problems: the first is how to find what they need in the ocean of information, and the second is how to keep up with the fast changing and never-ending new knowledge and content. Search engines such as Google and Baidu have solved the first problem, thus becoming the first generation of Internet tools. And the second solution is now quietly emerging, which is based on the RSS and Atom Technology network content of the "push" technology, a can make thousands of netizens more efficient and convenient to track the changes in the network information of the second generation of Internet tools.

What is Web content "push" technology? In short, web content providers (portals, business sites, intelligence centers, blogs, online communities, etc.) "push" the latest information to the audience in real time. As long as users define the content and source they want to read locally, new information is constantly "pushed" in front of him without the need to "surf" across multiple sites, creating unnecessary waste of time and energy. This article also launches the RSS technology and RSS technology based on the implementation of the information "push" for a more comprehensive description, and strive to make Linux users feel the charm of RSS.

Users often look at the content of the Internet may be distributed in different channels, but as long as they support RSS, you can put these dispersed content into an interface, timed automatically update. This first requires downloading and installing an RSS reader, and then subscribing to the content of an interesting news section from the Aggregated News catalog list (RSS Feeds) provided by the Web site, and, of course, a Web page that finds an XML standard can be added directly to the RSS reader. Once subscribed, the reader updates the subscribed content regularly. RSS applications are the most popular in blogs, podcasts and other sites, they generally adopt the XML standards, support RSS. In the traditional Web site, only a part of the current support RSS, and generally only provide a very simple content feed, to read the full text also need to open the appropriate page. Therefore, RSS applications are still very limited, so more with the new network application podcasts, blogs and so closely combined.

Here are some different types of commonly used RSS reader software. If you use a particular computer, then it is appropriate to use RSS reading software, if you often use a different computer to surf the internet, then those who can access the same services anywhere in the Internet content aggregation site is more suitable for you.

Standalone working software

Akregator is a well-designed RSS reader, it has a variety of software interfaces, including languages such as Simplified Chinese, and support for Chinese is very good, is a very suitable for the use of RSS news reader. Because of the detailed guide, it will soon be available.

Software Download installation process is as follows:

#wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/akregator/akregator-1.0.2.tar.bz2

#./configure

#make; make install

The Akregator work interface is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Akregator Working interface

In addition to the essential news reading features, akregator can use the monitoring feature. Users need to set up a monitoring project based on the keywords they are interested in, so that Akregator will begin to help users scan news headlines or descriptions, and the monitor will extract them to the corresponding monitoring items as long as the articles related to the provided keyword. Akregator can not only search for locally downloaded articles, but also extract articles from the updated data, so that users can quickly get the information they need even if they don't get into the news channel. It can be said that this function is like a helpful user to organize the information of the intimate small secretary general.