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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: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.

  2. 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)

  3. 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...

  4. 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.