Re: [SLUG] Freshmeat/Sourgeforge

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 19:11:43 EDT


Paul M Foster wrote:
> Anyone know what the relationship is between Freshmeat and Sourceforge?
> Freshmeat doesn't index _all_ the projects on Sourceforge, but it does
> index a lot of them. And I can't tell whether they index projects
> elsewhere, nor why they only index some of the projects on Sourceforge.
>
 From my recollection, Freshmeat existed as a Linux/Open Source software
index before Sourceforge and mainly pointed people to latest versions.
SourceForge came about and started hosting many Open Source projects. So
people would keep the sources on SourceForge then update the Freshmeat
page. Soon there was a huge number of projects on SF that were indexed
on FM.
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