And to help you find the projects, and their new releases, back in the day, there were directories such as http://freshmeat.net/ http://freshmeat.net/ (Somethi

And to help you find the projects, and their new releases, back in the day, there were directories such as http://freshmeat.net/ http://freshmeat.net/ (Something I think of re-creating now and again, but maybe with distributions containing packages people don't need such a thing any more?)