Saturday, February 28, 2026
Mozilla Thunderbird is the default email client application on Ubuntu. This powerful application has many features other than email management, and among them is, an RSS feed reader. That means an Ubuntu user can subscribe to any website and blog on the internet and the news will be ready to read every time he or she goes online. Isn't that amazing? Now we will explain it in a step-by-step manner as usual below based on our OS version 24.04 "Noble Numbat." Happy reading!
Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates.
News Sources
We picked up some news sources here as examples for us to practice:
1. Ubuntu News, a company's news website
2. Distrowatch, a news aggregator and reviews of many other news websites
3. unixbhaskar.wordpress.com, an example of personal blog
****
Getting Started to RSS Feed URLs
What is RSS? RSS stands for really simple syndication, that is, a technology that allows Internet-based web news delivered automatically from the news source to the subscribers indicated by a symbol of an orange square. Nowadays, every website have a RSS feed for people to subscribe to.
(The RSS logo. Image source: Wikipedia.)
****
How To Subscribe to a News
1. Visit ubuntu.com website.
2. Find the RSS logo or link on the webpage. Here's some examples from the three sources above:
 |
 |
 |
|
RSS logo on the bottom |
RSS logo on the middle |
RSS logo on the top |
3. Right-click on the RSS logo or link -> Copy Link -> the link copied.
4. Run Thunderbird -> triple-line menu button -> New Account -> Feed.
5. On the Feed Account Wizard: click Next -> Finish.
6. Click the new entry "Blogs and News Feeds" in the left panel -> Manage Subscription.
7. Paste link from step number 3. It will look like this "https://ift.tt/7qomrPw".
8. Click Add.
9. Subscription added. Done.
10. Repeat steps number 1-9 for Distrowatch and the WordPress.com blog.
****
How To Read a News
(Left: Blog & News Feeds selected. Middle: list of news. Right: news being read.)
Above is an example of a latest news from the Ubuntu blog titled "Unmasking Resolute Raccoon" that is planned to be released April this year. To read a news:
1. Click Blogs & News Feed section on the left panel.
2. Select a source you subscribed to. In this example, the "Ubuntu blog."
3. Select a news in the middle. In this example, the "Unmasking Resolute Raccoon."
4. The news will be viewed in the right panel. Done.
The default view mode is called Vertical View.
****
Switch to an Alternative View Mode
Above is an alternative view mode that puts the news content to the bottom instead of the right. This is called the Classic View. To enable it: click triple line button -> View -> Layout -> Classic.
Above is another alternative view mode that is similar to Classic but wider for the reader are to the bottom. This is called the Wide View. To enable it: click triple line button -> View -> Layout -> Wide.
To revert back to the default view mode, select Vertical View instead under Layout menu.
****
See Also
1. List of RSS Feeds from the Free Software Community, GNU/Linux tech., and etc.
2. Commafeed, a web-based free software RSS reader.
3. Getting started to the user interface of Thunderbird on Ubuntu.
****
This article is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Originally posted here: https://ift.tt/HxVJga2
0 comments:
Post a Comment