__NOTOC__ Newsbeuter was a

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for

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systems. It was originally written by Andreas Krennmair in 2007 and released under the

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. The program is aimed at

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and strives to be "" It supports the major feed formats including

RSS RSS ( RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many di ...

and

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and can import and export subscription lists in the

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format. Newsbeuter (podbeuter) also supports

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and synchronization. As of 2017, the project is no longer maintained; the original developers advise users to switch to Newsboat, an actively maintained

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of Newsbeuter.

Name

"Newsbeuter" is a pun on the

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word , which means "

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". According to Clifford Wolf, who is credited for coming up with the name, "during the stone age, people hunted and gathered their food, and these days, they hunt and gather news and information."

Operation

Newsbeuter is entirely controlled by the keyboard, and its default keybindings resemble those of vi. The program supported synchronization with

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since version 2.2, but this feature was removed when Google discontinued Google Reader. Support for alternatives such as The Old Reader and

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was introduced in version 2.8.

Configuration

Newsbeuter's appearance and keyboard shortcuts are configured with a single text file.

Reception

Newsbeuter was the most popular news reader among

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users in 2012, and received 1.8% of votes in the "Best RSS Reader" category in a 2013 survey by

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. The program is often featured in magazine articles and software lists to demonstrate the power and versatility of the command line interface. As an alternative to compiling the source files, Newsbeuter can be installed from pre-built binary packages on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, PLD Linux, and through the Homebrew package manager.

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