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Freshports.org Upgraded to 1.1

Posted by Nik on from the insert-funny-comment-here dept.

QBasic_Dude writes "Freshports, a BSD-centric service similar to Freshmeat, has been upgraded to 1.1. Freshports now has 100% automation, and improved homepage, and of course, more ports."

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  1. BSDCon 2000 by JunkMale · · Score: 2

    I'll be at BSDCon 2000 and will be giving a short talk on how the FreshPorts website actually works, give an outline of the database design, and an overview of the data processing. I'll also outline the future plans. Hopefully we'll be able to expand the ranks of the developers.

  2. freshports and freebsddiary by jon_c · · Score: 2

    Freshports is an effort by the guy who did www.freebsddiary.org, which BTW is one of the most useful websites I have every encountered.

    To spread a little *bsd advacocy, I like the fact that BSD isn't to poplar, it's not fragmented. If I have a problem with Apache 1.3.4 and FreeBSD 3.4, it's going to have "an answer", or at least a lot fewer answers then under a linux.

    So I can go to freebsddiary and get the skinny on darn near anything, I want to setup ssh? No problem, how about apache+php4+ssl, no problem.

    I've only been to freshports a few times, I run my server on FreeBSD and am much more concerned with new exploits then new programs I don't need to run or check out.

    I have a linux box for stuff like that.

    -Jon

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    this is my sig.