Syndication feeds are the easiest way to keep track of content that updates frequently, like blogs, news sites or your inbox. Most feeds are either a version of RSS or of Atom. You subscribe to the feed in your

Liferea is a feed reader for GNOME that supports the common syndication methods and less common ones through conversion filters. The interface is the same that most readers employ, a left and a right pane with the right pane divided into top and bottom panes. When you close it, it minimises to the notification area where it will display a number of unread feeds on its own icon (this can be changed)

Liferea stands for Linux Feed Reader (wonder why they didn’t name it Liferead, pronunciation would be so much easier!), and appropriately descriptive name. It occupies something between 12-25 MB of RAM, with the higher end of the range appearing when it uses the Mozilla rendering for pages that you open within the reader instead of in the browser.