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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. Re:Gentoo has 5000+ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Different reasons:
    - linux has a much larger developer/user base + gentoo is incredibly hyped
    - a lot of software is written for linux, sometimes it requires patches to make it work on BSD
    - 0-5000 is easier than 5000-10000, just try to find 10000 applications worth porting...
    - gentoo portage started on a moment that much more *nix software existed than when FreeBSD ports started

    And from what I've seen of portage, I have a strong impression that it's not always that well tested...

  2. Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD by DashEvil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, and let me guess, you haven't tried to compile anything on RedHat 9.0 yet? :)

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    -If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
  3. Re:almost 3 per day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    + ports:
    -make is still better than python - a base system should not rely on anything else than shell and C (and, well, make). Thanks for removing perl back to ports in 5.
    -checks for dependencies before trying to uninstall
    -mergemaster kicks ass compared to etc-update

    + portage
    -USE Variables

    Maybe FreeBSD should add a single file, like /etc/with.conf, where all of those WITH_FOO=yes knobs are listed and which is sourced before each port is build.
    So portupgrade would respect those, too

  4. Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Insightful
    And, to tie into this article, the ports collection provides a wealth of great software. There's no issue as to which flavor of Linux you have

    FreeBSD is cool and all, but you could equally say "Debian apt is really great! there's no issue as to which CPU arch you're on, if you're running Debian, there will be packages for you".

    ie, don't overhype ports. Useful yes, something amazing that only FreeBSD has, no.

  5. Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD by naelurec · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please don't think RPM is even close to apt-get and ports. Nothing quite like trying to install an RPM that *SHOULD* work only to have it complain about tons of dependencies. I like the FreeBSD way much better as it will go fetch the required parts, compile & optmize and be done with it. :)

    The RPM based distros really should go to something like apt-get, ports or portage (gentoo)

  6. Re:Reiser4 Troll by vesamies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you forgetting UFS2. Of course, it's not the most innovative system around, but surely BSD filesystem development exists. I think UFS2 was integrated to FreeBSD a year or two ago? About, NetBSD's LFS, you are correct, it's not for production use. I don't know if anyone is working to get it stabilized, there has been some interest...

  7. Re:Uh oh! by Groganz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like it for its quality and have no interest in switching to another OS for estoric geek value or whatever. I think most serious FreeBSD users are the same.

  8. Re:Sweet! by mjuszczak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dont forget to cvsup.... hehe If you really wanna have fun ... Install 4.0-RELEASE ... cd /usr/ports && make install clean && cvsup && portupgrade -ra .... see you next year. /me loves freebsd ... it does it all for you. Okay and what the heck is with these linux lovers? BSD is rock solid. I can't even crash the system if I wanted to (I've tried) ...