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by asveikau 332 days ago
The thing that the responses are not capturing is that the stuff on freshmeat was often kind of frivolous desktop widgets or themes. People were excited about Linux desktops and lots of people were authoring small stuff to customize it.

Network monitoring/visualization widgets that sit on your WindowMaker dock or similar was a common theme.

So that is sort of the reference being made here