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Today, many ports are maintained by special task forces or sub-projects, each with a dedicated mailing list (e.g. kde@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org, etc.), while unmaintained ports are assigned to the generic group ports@FreeBSD.org. In general, anyone may become a port maintainer by contributing their favorite software to the collection.
OpenPorts.se, originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, [9] was a custom-written web-site that does its own parsing of the ports tree structure and the updates, and has the functionality of tracking changes of a given port, having a shortcoming of not supporting some of the more complicated Makefile logic, and thus missing some 15% of ...
ravynOS - an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD. iXsystems. TrueNAS storage appliances were based on FreeBSD 10.3 [4] TrueNAS CORE and Enterprise (formerly known as FreeNAS [2]), is based on FreeBSD ; however TrueNAS Scale, alternative of both TrueNAS Core/Entreprise, is based on Debian Gnu/Linux.
Offers a complete web UI for easily controlling, deploying and managing FreeBSD jails, containers and Bhyve/Xen hypervisor virtual environments. DragonFly BSD: Originally forked from FreeBSD 4.8, now developed in a different direction TrueNAS: Previously known as FreeNAS. GhostBSD: GhostBSD is a FreeBSD OS distro oriented for desktops and laptops.
An ephemeral port is a communications endpoint of a transport layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite that is used for only a short period of time for the duration of a communication session. Such short-lived ports are allocated automatically within a predefined range of port numbers by the IP stack software of a computer operating system.
It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD. Since then it has evolved independently; in 1999, support for Solaris was added, followed by support for other operating systems. [3] pkgsrc currently contains over 22,000 packages and includes most popular open-source software.
FreeBSD contains a significant collection of server-related software in the base system and the ports collection, allowing FreeBSD to be configured and used as a mail server, web server, firewall, FTP server, DNS server and a router, among other applications. FreeBSD can be installed on a regular desktop or a laptop.
Portsnap is a system written by Colin Percival for secure distribution of compressed, digitally signed snapshots of the FreeBSD ports tree. The distribution follows the client–server model and uses the transport protocol HTTP (pipelined HTTP). From FreeBSD 6 through 13 (as well as 5.5), portsnap was a part of the base system.