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by bcrescimanno
1562 days ago
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I loved Freshmeat from about 1998 to maybe 2002 or so and I remember checking it multiple times a day from my first dorm room at Georgia Tech. In those days, the "./configure && make && make install" was burned into my mind. As others have said, it really felt like the "wild west." I remember needing to turn in a printed paper and looking frantically for an updated version of AbiWord that fixed a bug I was experiencing. By the end of my time using it, it already felt superfluous. I moved from RedHat to Debian and apt was clearly a better system for managing the software on my system than the random mix of installing RPMs and grabbing source tarballs. |
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