On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:18 AM, David Smith <sidic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/27/2014 10:43 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Liferea is a reader for RSS and Atom feeds. > > Advanced feeds are also supported, such as RDF, Echo and PIE feeds, CDF > > channels and OCS directories. > > . > > TinyTinyRSS synchronization is supported so that you can synchronize your > > feeds and (un)read items across multiple devices automatically. > > It also supports social networking and integration with Facebook, > Google+, > > Reddit, Twitter, Slashdot, Digg, Yahoo and many more, so you can share > your > > favorite news articles. > > . > > Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader. > > Notes: Dropped "ECHO/PIE" because these are just different names to > call the format which became ATOM before it was known as ATOM. > > "Liferea is a linux feed reader that brings together all of the content > from your favorite news feeds into an interface that's easy to organize > and browse. > > Supported news formats include Rich Site Summary (RSS), Atom > Syndication (Atom), Resource Description Framework (RDF), Channel > Definition Format (CDF), and..." > > > Does anybody know what an OCS directory is? > I know it as an acronym for Microsoft's Office Communications Server, > and I know it connects to Active Directories but I really doubt that's > what is being referred to here. > > A google search didn't reveal much. Although there were some hints of > an application called OCS Inventory NG making and using .OCS files.. > Again, that doesn't make any sense to me since that doesn't seem to have > anything to do with news feeds. I tried checking the demo website of > OCS Inventory NG but it's down. Then i found something that referred to > these .OCS files as being in XML format which then would make sense > since it'd be similar to the other file formats liferea supports. > > I guess that's part of the problem of getting some of these clarified. > > Lars, any insight would be appreciated. > > OCS is totally lost these days (it was an OPML alternative for a while). Actually support was removed upstream quite some while ago. So please do not mention it. IMO mentioning RSS and Atom is probably enough for most users. More interesting should be the supported online accounts (TheOldReader and TinyTinyRSS). Cheers, Lars
