Are CDE and Motif Linux roadkill?
News Compare this to entire sections of freshmeat dedicated to hundreds of apps written to the two main graphics libraries used in Linux, Gtk and Qt. Am I doing a disservice to Motif because I'm only on freshmeat, and overlooking commercial sources?
[February 2, 2000, 9:28]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News Until now, new releases of free software have been quietly announced in a number of well-known channels, the most popular being the freshmeat Web site. Best to stick to freshmeat next time. Hidden among all these commercial vendors discovering the...
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
GPL to get a makeover
News According to Freshmeat, which calls itself "the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software", there are more than 19,000 GPL-covered software projects, and the GPL governs 68 percent of projects in the Freshmeat index.
[December 23, 2004, 15:10]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News The Black Duck product uses a 50GB knowledge base, which is updated with new code from the open-source community through the use of spiders which trawl the Web looking for open-source code, and by monitoring 250 leading open-source projects and...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Linux love: VA Linux buys Andover.net
News Andover.net and VA Linux operate the Linux.com, Sourceforge.net, and Themes.org, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net sites and account for almost two-thirds of Linux traffic. Here's how officials detailed the deal on a conference call: Based on VA Linux...
[February 3, 2000, 13:00]
Verify DNS records with Dlint
News Dlint packages exist in multiple distribution formats from common software repositories such as RPMfind and freshmeat. If you manage Domain Name System (DNS) records, you probably already know how seemingly minor errors can cause big problems.
[September 5, 2002, 13:07]
VA Linux to sell proprietary software
News Most of the revenue in the current quarter will come from advertising and sponsorship from VA Web sites such as Slashdot and Freshmeat, Augustin said. VA created an open-source program called SourceForge used to house open-source collaborative...
[August 24, 2001, 17:20]
VA Linux to stop making computers
News Among VA sites that will remain is the advertising-sponsored Open Source Development Network (OSDN), a series of Web sites such as the "news for nerds" Slashdot site, the SourceForge programming site, and the Freshmeat software update site.
[June 28, 2001, 12:31]
Markets fall in love with Linux
News With its recent acquisitions of the popular Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net sites, the company believes it now commands about half the total Web audience seeking information and tools for Linux development.
[December 7, 1999, 13:21]
Andover.net launches open source Linux publication
News It also owns online open source and Linux resources including QuestionExchange.com, Freshmeat.net and Sourceforge.net. Open Source technology portal Andover.net is to expand its rapidly growing empire into the offline arena with the launch of an...
[May 5, 2000, 9:37]
The real meaning of LinuxWorld
News With Slashdot, FreshMeat and other hot, but not-at-all profitable, news/information/gossip sites behind it, VA Linux is in a fine position to popularise CEO Larry Augustin's plans for VA Linux to become the No.
[February 7, 2000, 8:31]
Schwartz swipes at the GPL
News And that tenet hasn't deterred programmers so far: The GPL is used in 68 percent of the thousands of projects tracked by the Freshmeat indexing site. Sun president Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday proclaimed ardent support for the open source software...
[April 6, 2005, 13:50]
Open source coders aren't lazy enough
Blog Read through a site like Freshmeat and you'll see lots of very useful projects like software build tools, project management systems, network utilities, all of which vary from similar projects in functionality by a few per cent.
[April 24, 2009, 16:10]
Free Software Foundation releases GPLv3
News More than 30,000 projects, which is about 66 percent of the open-source projects tracked by the Freshmeat site, use the GPL. After 18 months of sometimes inflamed debate, the Free Software Foundation on Friday released version 3 of the General...
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
