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For people digging up old software:

https://xteddy.org/lsm
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"The LSM (Linux Software Map) was an early database cataloguing 
 software developed for Linux (and other systems, such as *BSD). The 
 term LSM refers to both the file format itself, and the information 
 with which one could use it for.
 
 The LSM was a good way to collate a central understanding of the 
 key software available at the time which could be coordinated 
 between different distributions. This was at a time when search 
 engines were of their infancy and software hub sites did not yet 
 really exist. Most software being developed at the time was 
 uploaded to FTP servers, or other self-hosted sites.
 
 ibiblio holds the current format of the LSM itself, and at one 
 point in time allowed for it to be queried. Alas, it appears (as of 
 2022) that this is no longer the case.
 
 This version found here is not queried server-side -- instead, the 
 data is loaded client-side and processed via the browser's DOM. It 
 is itself not a large dataset, and small enough to be done in this 
 way, but originally, this would not have been the case.
 
 The data itself was extracted from the most recent copy of the LSM 
 available (http://lsm.qqx.org/lsm/LSM) and a quick script written 
 to parse it into something which can be queried via a JSON 
 interpreter.
 
 -- Thomas Adam (November, 2022)" ...

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