Running RSS Bandit on linux?

by | Jul 16, 2004 | Technology | 2 comments

I am seriously thinking about throwing windows out of the window and moving back to linux for my home desktop.
The programs I use the most, like Eclipse, Firefox or Thunderbird, all run perfect on linux.
But there is one thing that is keeping me from switching right now: I am pretty hooked up to RSS Bandit, the C# based rss aggregator. One very nice feature is for example the possiblity to remotely storing the read state of the feeds.

Now the problem is that this application needs the .NET framework to run. I know there is a linux alternative for the .NET framework called Mono, but I don’t have any experience with that.
Maybe this is a silly question, but would it be possible to make RSS Bandit run on linux using Mono?
Or is there a good alternative for RSS Bandit on linux?

2 Comments

  1. Haacked (aka Phil Haack)
    Haacked (aka Phil Haack) on 05/04/2005 at 22:37

    Running it as-is on Mono probably won’t work. Mono uses a different windowing library (GTK???).

    You can get the source code from CVS and see what it would take, but as there are also third-party dependencies, it’s probably a very big job to do such a conversion.

  2. Niel
    Niel on 07/04/2005 at 14:55

    The first comment about Mono using GTK is not entirely correct. While Mono does support GTK#, Mono 1.2 provides an implementation of System.Windows.Forms so the UI is not necessarily the limiting factor.