Open source software is booming: here we round up over 480 open source applications
for you to use or build upon.
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RSS
- Aggie
- Aggie is a desktop based open-source news aggregator that downloads the latest news in a webpage.
- AmphetaDesk - A cross platform, open source news aggregator that downloads news items on the user's desktop.
- BlogBridge
- A powerful and flexible desktop based open source feed reader for Windows, Linux and Mac.
- BottomFeeder - RSS news aggregator client written in Smalltalk and compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris.
- Gregarious - A web-based RSS/RDF/Atom feed reader designed for users to run on their own web server.
- JRssReader - A fast, Java based RSS & RDF reader; offers compatibility with multiple platforms.
- NewsFeed - Flexible RSS/RDF/Atom aggregator for different operating systems like Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD.
- NRss - an "open source Microsoft .NET Framework / Mono class library for reading a RSS feed into a tree of objects mapped to elements in the RSS feed."
- RSSOwl - Java-based open source news reader.
- Syndirella - Syndirella is an open source desktop information aggregator providing a user friendly environment for reading information from multiple sources or feeds.
- ThinFeeder - Very powerful and tiny open source aggregator for RSS/Atom developed in Java language.
