"The Planet software was developed to power Planet GNOME and Planet
Debian, but now it's being used by dozens of open source projects."

seems to be easy installing the planet , another alternative is
http://www.plagger.org (written in perl)

ps:

I guess is time one planet for firebird too for
http://www.planetfirebird.com (seems that every oss project has one
planet) , [EORant]

read more on digg http://digg.com/linux_unix/Create_your_own_Planet

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developer flamerobin.org