From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 20 07:42:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12999 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12987 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA26447; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:39:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:39:36 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Kris Kennaway cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tons of stuff to port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message