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FreshPorts

Posted by Nik on from the I-love-the-smell-of-fresh-ports-in-the-morning dept.

Dan Langille, creator and maintainer of the FreeBSD Diary, has just unleashed FreshPorts on the world. In a nutshell, this is a changing list of new and updated ports in the FreeBSD ports tree, making it easy to keep bang up to date with new software as it's ported. It's a natural companion to Wolfram Schneider's fortnightly port update messages.

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  1. Re:Trolls on /. by spiralx · · Score: 3

    I think the vast quantity of spam (they're not clever enough to qualify as trolls) on this story and others is in direct response to Rob's new "lameness filter" which tries to prevent things from being posted in all caps. Since there are plenty more annoying things than all caps (as we can see here) this is both a) a waste of time and b) asking for trouble.

    Every time Rob adds a new feature to cut down on noise (e.g. moderation, 70 sec delay etc.) it seems to result in massive increases in spam from the lamers. Oh well, since they've only got a ten minute attention span it'll probably die down in a while.

  2. This is a great idea. by Rumble · · Score: 3

    It's good that somebody actually sat down and worked something like this out... I'm sure there are many people out there that will find this an invaluable resource.

    The only thing I'm wondering is how this will work across the different BSD's, and the different Releases of each BSD, if it implements the same sort of patch system as the ports collections of these fine OS's use at the present time.

    -Ryan