Freshmeat is a website that allows computer users to keep track of the latest software releases and updates as well as write/read reviews and articles, send or receive comments to or from the author, and many other features. Although a majority of the software covered is open source for Unix environment, Freshmeat covers releases for software on a variety of operating systems including [[Linux]and Microsoft Windows as well as closed-source or commercial software. The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... In computing, an operating system ( aka, OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Microsoft Windows is a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ...

Freshmeat is part of the Open Source Technology Group (OSTG), which is owned by VA Software. The Open Source Technology Group (OSTG) describes itself as a news, collaboration and distribution community for IT and Open Source development, implementation and innovation. ... LNUX stock price (09-Dec-1999 through 09-Dec-2000) VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), formerly VA Linux Systems, is the provider of the SourceForge Development Intelligence application. ...

Submissions

Programmers register their projects and inform the site about updates; users browse for software and download and (sometimes) rate or comment on the software. Software is categorized by field of application, license, development status, environment, intended audience, type of use, supported operating systems, and used programming and available natural languages. There is an NNTP server for usenet-like access and complex search queries can be saved, and new or updated entries that match the query can be sent as daily e-mail notifications. A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... In computing, an operating system ( aka, OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ...

Features

Furthermore, Freshmeat offers a news ticker stream, articles on Unix software-related topics and an IRC channel. Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ...

Freshmeat's entire database of software releases is freely available as a download, for such purposes as having a local database copy.

See also

• SourceForge
• Slashdot

SourceForge is a collaborative software development management system. ... Slashdot (often abbreviated to /.) is a popular technology-related website, updated many times daily with articles that are short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories, and provisions for readers to comment on each story. ...

External links

• Official Website