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FreeBSD Passes 9000 Ports

Posted by Hemos on from the great-work dept.

Dan writes "Kris Kennaway believes that the french/med port has the honour of being the 9000'th in the FreeBSD ports collection. Congratulations to everyone who has helped to make the Ports Collection such a success over the past 9 years!"

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  1. BSD Support by GeXX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naa, we've already updated our Ports for this morning. Both Source & Programs.

    We are at work currentley making money, we don't have the luxory of summer vacation like the linux'ers.

  2. Uh oh! by dasunt · · Score: 5, Funny

    [ BSDhead #1 ]: Did you hear? FreeBSD has 9000 ports now!

    [ BSDhead #2 ]: Crap! It is too popular! It has hit the mainstream!

    [ BSDhead #1 ]: That's what I was thinking - lets switch to OpenBSD

    1. Re:Uh oh! by amightywind · · Score: 5, Funny

      [ BSDHead #3] Theo is a nazi, NetBSD runs on too many machines. Lets start a fork!

      --
      an ill wind that blows no good
  3. wow 9000 ports! by fluor2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    thats,
    port #1: port 22 ssh
    port #2: port 21 ftp
    port #1: port 80 http ..
    uh

  4. NetBSD surpasses 9000 ports: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ported to 9000 CPU architectures ;-)

  5. Sweet! by neafevoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    I better get started!

    cd /usr/ports && make install clean ...