There are plenty of RSS readers in the world to choose from, but I do find that RSSOwl does pretty much all I could ask for and looks good too. All, that is, except work in Ubuntu (Intrepid version at least).
I’m kind of slowly testing the waters with Linux – I need it to do all the same things I do with Windows, but this problem was leaving me a little bemused. I could import in my rss links, and RSSOwl seemed to be updating the links ok, but could I get it to visualise the links it found? Nope. That is until I found this helpful little page RSS on Ubuntu with new shiny Firefox 3 which told me exactly how to solve the problem, and it did. All I needed, apparently, was XulRunner for Gnome, which you can get by typing the following line into your terminal program:
sudo apt-get install xulrunner-gnome-support
According to the Mozilla site:
XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird.
So there you go.
