RSSOwl 1.2 Released

Benjamin Pasero over at RSSOwl.org wrote to tell us that they have released version 1.2 for their RSS/RDF/Atom newsfeed viewer. It looks like a lot of work has gone into this version. Some of the new features are; a fully customizable toolbar with new elements like 'History', new search scopes allow for more detailed searches, a new 'Linked Mode' to update selection in your favorites automatically, support for Atom 1.0 format, and quite a few others.

Where am I ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Freshmeat ??

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pardon my French, but who the fuck cares? Why do I need to read about RSSOwl on Slashdot? I can understand reading about a new release of KDE or Gnome or the kernel or something, but a NEWS reader?

Yawn.

Is it any faster

[wormeyman]

The problems i've had with a lot of rss readers is that they're SLOW because they use an xml database (opml file) the reader i use uses sql-lite or someother sql database for it's storage and while that causes problems when you shutdown the process without exiting properly it makes for an extermely fast rss reader.

Re:Why?

[Phwoar]

Yeah, I mean, after all, this isn't a news site.

Is there any advantage over a web service?

[peeping_Thomist]

I've been using Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/ [bloglines.com] for about a year, and find it does a great job of aggregating rss, xml, atom and other kinds of feeds. I can move from machine to machine without a problem.

Would there be any advantage in switching to something like rssowl or liferea?

Why is this on slashdot?

[55555 Manbabies!]

RSS is nice, but this software product is not really anything special or unique.

RSS-OWL - Web Ontologies?

[viksit]

So, am I the *only* on on /. who even thought about the semantic web and the Web Ontology language (OWL) when this post was announced? I for one assumed this had something to do with RSS and OWL - in my opinion, a name with double entendre.. Vik