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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:39:36 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tons of stuff to port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901200831210.26334-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901202314150.14274-100000@bragg>

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Hi,

> I'm not sure how widely known/used this is to the other people here,
> but www.freshmeat.net is an excellent source of new applications/stuff
> to port

Mike Smith and I talked awhile back about this.  He was telling me that at
one point he went there with plans to port a couple things a day from
freshmeat to FreeBSD.  He found that, other than stuff we already had, the
majority of the apps were pretty junky.  I have to agree.  There's
certainly a lot of good stuff there, but most of it has been ported.

That said there are a couple things I've found recently that I want to
port as I need them, but I'm buried w/ other non-FreeBSD stuff right now.

> I've found this very useful for keeping an eye on the ports I'm
> maintaining, as well as updates to other ports I use so I can give a
> heads-up to the maintainer.

This is certainly true.  

> Does anyone else know of any other "hidden treasure" sites like this?

If you can't keep up w/ freshmeat, Linux Weekly News (www.lwn.org)
maintains a weekly list of all the apps that came out on freshmeat.  

A few other sources of apps that I occasionally use:

DLR Fresh Archive - unix/src  	http://www.go.dlr.de/fresh/unix/src/
LASSPTools	http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/LASSPTools/LASSPTools.html
SAL -- Scientific Applications on Linux	http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM
Linux Applications Page	http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtm

Brett
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