[vidarh]

Way to make us feel old :)

Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old:

https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/

And here's the HN discussion from back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135

(including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting)

And the wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode

None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.