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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 ...
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.
PC-BSD, up to and including version 8.2, a predecessor of TrueOS (an operating system based on FreeBSD) places packages and dependencies into self-contained directories in /Programs, which avoids breakage if system libraries are upgraded or changed. It uses its own "PBI" (Push Button Installer) for package management.
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.
FreeBSD supports soft updates for the UFS file system [1] and they have been enabled by default during installation for many years. Soft updates are manually enabled or disabled during file system creation with an option to the newfs command. [2] They can be disabled or enabled anytime thereafter with an option to the tunefs command. [3]
Portage is similar to the BSD-style package management known as ports, and was originally designed with FreeBSD's ports in mind. [8] Portage is written in the Python programming language, and is the main utility that defines Gentoo. Although the system itself is known as Portage, it consists of two main parts, the ebuild system and emerge. The ...