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What's that? Webarchive/google don't return much of anything.

28304283409234 1y ago
http://freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net was a directory of open source software back in the 90's and noughts. It was one of the main ways to discover software. But what is X11? Is that like Wayland? ;-)
- pak9rabid 1y ago
  Yep, my "package repo", if you will, for pretty much everything I installed on Slackware back in the day.
teddyh 1y ago
A modern equivalent is <https://freshcode.club/ https://freshcode.club/>
- vidarh 1y ago
  I was about to mention Aminet[1] too as a joke of sorts (it's Amiga focused, but still updated, though it stores the actual archives more than focus on the "news"), but scanned the front page on freshcode first and one of first things that stood out was an Amiga program[2]... If anything makes Freshcode a successor to Freshmeat, the only thing missing is an Enlightenment theme being posted too. [1] https://aminet.net/ https://aminet.net/ [2] https://freshcode.club/projects/apccomm https://freshcode.club/projects/apccomm
vidarh 1y ago
Way to make us feel old :) Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old: https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ And here's the HN discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 (including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting) And the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.
itomato 1y ago
Like product hunt but OSS. Imagine if GitHub release authors publicized releases in a timeline view. v.0.1 of this or v3.0 of that had the same exposure. One site. Daily fix.
asveikau 1y ago
The thing that the responses are not capturing is that the stuff on freshmeat was often kind of frivolous desktop widgets or themes. People were excited about Linux desktops and lots of people were authoring small stuff to customize it. Network monitoring/visualization widgets that sit on your WindowMaker dock or similar was a common theme. So that is sort of the reference being made here

http://freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net was a directory of open source software back in the 90's and noughts. It was one of the main ways to discover software. But what is X11? Is that like Wayland? ;-)

pak9rabid 1y ago
Yep, my "package repo", if you will, for pretty much everything I installed on Slackware back in the day.

teddyh 1y ago

A modern equivalent is <https://freshcode.club/ https://freshcode.club/>

vidarh 1y ago
I was about to mention Aminet[1] too as a joke of sorts (it's Amiga focused, but still updated, though it stores the actual archives more than focus on the "news"), but scanned the front page on freshcode first and one of first things that stood out was an Amiga program[2]... If anything makes Freshcode a successor to Freshmeat, the only thing missing is an Enlightenment theme being posted too. [1] https://aminet.net/ https://aminet.net/ [2] https://freshcode.club/projects/apccomm https://freshcode.club/projects/apccomm

vidarh 1y ago

Way to make us feel old :) Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old: https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ And here's the HN discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 (including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting) And the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.

itomato 1y ago

Like product hunt but OSS. Imagine if GitHub release authors publicized releases in a timeline view. v.0.1 of this or v3.0 of that had the same exposure. One site. Daily fix.

asveikau 1y ago

The thing that the responses are not capturing is that the stuff on freshmeat was often kind of frivolous desktop widgets or themes. People were excited about Linux desktops and lots of people were authoring small stuff to customize it. Network monitoring/visualization widgets that sit on your WindowMaker dock or similar was a common theme. So that is sort of the reference being made here