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1y ago

What the most Lightest RSS reader for Debian?

For my Thinkpad x200s with:

Antix 22 x86 Linux
Core 2 Duo L9400
2gb RAM
128gb SSD. What's your best recommendation RSS reader for this specs?

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I want to jockely answer: curl but there are seriously good cli rss readers out there:
https://newsboat.org/
https://github.com/guyfedwards/nom
- +1 for newsboat. I wasnt looking for anything thats light but decided to try it out and its perfect for what I need
- Newsboat are dope enough for my need right now. For nom rss, I think matcha looks similar but more polish and interestingly, Obsidian compatible..
  
  I'm an avid Obsidian user but I didn't know about Matcha. It's really cool

I really like matcha. It is just a little go app (17MB) that is configured with a config file. You can use it to display in-terminal or, what you are meant to do, run it and it generates a markdown file as a "digest" of the feeds you configure, easy to trigger it manually or you can set up a cron job/systemd timer to do it on a schedule.
- Great alternative! Mayber I'll used Matcha on my Thinkpad x260 once I try to messing with Obsidian. Thank you..

As long as I have Thunderbird already opened and using resources for reading mail, I decided I might as well use it for RSS too instead of opening another application.
Works for me, YMMV.
- I used Thunderbird for my Thinkpad x260. But for x200s, TB is too power hungry..

Newsboat integrates RSS and Youtube (or piped.kavin.rocks which is privacy front for Youtube). It launches your Youtube videos in your video player of choice. I bet MPV is the most lightweight video player.
I've used Newsboat for 3 years and after hard hassle during the first days it has given me easily the best ad-free news and Youtube-experience.
- Newsboat RSS reader are what I've been looking for!
  already installed on AntiX,
  native installation without any requirements,
  very simple interface,
  useful keybinding out of the box,
  easy to configure.
  Thank you for this gem! perfectly fit with my herbsluftWM interface..
  
  Have you Librebooted your X200s?

Yarr, a very lightweight RSS reader. https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
To deploy Yarr within a Docker container, you can use the Docker image provided by Wakeful-Cloud. https://github.com/Wakeful-Cloud/yarr
I have been running it on Raspberry Pi 3 for a couple of months without any issues, so I believe you won't encounter any problems.
- I wouldn't count docker as light, not for core2duo processor.
  
  You can run directly without docker by downloading it and using the command ./yarr -open
  
  So you are certain there are massive performance overhead then?

rss2email is probably the most lightweight solution.
- Thank you for this, maybe I will used this for specific task in the future..

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