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Actually the site used to be really useful. Somehow I forgot using it though. One day Ubuntu came out, the package manager (including dep mgmt) worked really well and there was a ton of great software in the repository.

But in the tar xzf ... ; ./configure && make && sudo make install time it was really nice.

I wished something like that existed for JS libraries.

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Right there with you. Back in the "compile it yourself" days of Linux, freshmeat was the place to look.

I find http://jsdb.io/ works pretty well for JS libraries. You might find it useful.

Thanks for the link, looks nicely sorted.

The same thing for extremely small JS libraries, http://microjs.com/#

"One day Ubuntu came out, the package manager (including dep mgmt) worked really well and there was a ton of great software in the repository."

But without resources like freshmeat, how are the packagers supposed to find out about new software to package. There is still one hell of a lot more unpackaged software than there is packaged, and finding it is going to become ever more difficult.

I'm personally quite annoyed by freshmeat's shutdown - I still checked it every (other) day.

"I'm personally quite annoyed by freshmeat's shutdown - I still checked it every (other) day."

Wow. Yeah, but good point about the package maintainers. I think there is this weird mechanism, products targeted towards a large consumer audience tend to be much better than products targeted to the "producer side".

It was an invaluable resource for obtaining open source software at the time, especially if one was using a smaller distribution like Slackware. In highlighting new releases, it also seemed to help sustain the excitement of consuming and exploring the software, at least in my recollection.

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