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?

Edo78 13 points 3 years ago

I want to jockely answer: curl but there are seriously good cli rss readers out there:

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kanzalibrary 3 points 3 years ago

Newsboat are dope enough for my need right now. For nom rss, I think matcha looks similar but more polish and interestingly, Obsidian compatible..

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Edo78 1 point 3 years ago

I'm an avid Obsidian user but I didn't know about Matcha. It's really cool

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Mihuy 3 points 3 years ago

+1 for newsboat. I wasnt looking for anything thats light but decided to try it out and its perfect for what I need

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Daeraxa 10 points 3 years ago

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.

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kanzalibrary 1 point 3 years ago

Great alternative! Mayber I'll used Matcha on my Thinkpad x260 once I try to messing with Obsidian. Thank you..

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Quazatron 8 points 3 years ago

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.

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kanzalibrary 2 points 3 years ago

I used Thunderbird for my Thinkpad x260. But for x200s, TB is too power hungry..

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Nuuskis9 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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kanzalibrary 3 points 3 years ago

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..

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Nuuskis9 2 points 3 years ago

Have you Librebooted your X200s?

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kanzalibrary 2 points 3 years ago

I want L-booted my x200s, but the procedure is complex than others. I need to find someone who's expert at soldering first, to not make any mistakes at the mobo. Still in searching, so it's all matter of time..

Do you have any tips or guide for me to L-booted this piece of art?

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Nuuskis9 2 points 3 years ago

My tips comes from 3 librebooted X200s I've done (plus 1 fried due to user error by me):

your most important tool is a heatgun with smallest possible nossle (or is it nozzle?)
replace the stock WSON-8 nightmare chip with 8 mbit SOIC-8 chip
take a photo of red dot on the WSON-8 before heating it, it shows you the right position/angle/side for the SOIC-8 chip too
be aware that the whole bottom part (i.e. big area) of that nightmare WSON-8 stock chip is soldered
do not compile libreboot with raspberry pi nor any sbc you're using (use real x86 computer)
when flashing, use slower spispeed than you'd use with Coreboot (older machine)
soldering the SOIC-8 chip do not require any skills nor good vision (super easy task)

With a good and especially small nossled heatgun you don't need to cover the motherboard at all. If you melt the plastc top cover of the WSON-8, it doesn't mind but not necessary either. Just don't melt the motherboard (small nossle!!!) and you're all good. Use tweezers rather than pliers, because force is bad and when the super-high quality soldering tin is melted completely, the WSON-8 chip comes off even if you just blow on it.

Flash the 8 mbit SOIC-8 before soldering it onto the motherboard.

I have no lots of soldering skills/experience, but it is fairly easy task if you just have the small nossled heatgun.

And oh yeah, some guides suggests to solder jumpwires onto the stock WSON-8 chip rather than heating it off, but that approach was way too hard for my soldering skills even with the smallest possible tip on my Pinecil soldering iron.

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keNaPHEl 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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monobot 2 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't count docker as light, not for core2duo processor.

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