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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 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.

    2. 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. Problems porting by SirGeek · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Not always. Sometimes porting is tough. Right now, I'm the "Non-Linux" release engineeer for Linux HA ( High Availablity Clustering) and I've tested it on FreeBSD 4.7 (going to to upgrade one box to 4.8 and another to 5.1 ) . The only problem is that the tool chain requires versions that are NOT the standard ported versions (Automake and autoconf if my memory serves me right).

    I want to get things working right so that I can release a Port version of Heartbeat but currently I cannot. Luckily it, by design, builds on FreeBSD and puts things into /usr/local/.../ and not /usr/... like on Linux.

    This may be a factor why things aren't quite right (different versions of Automake/Conf/lib) .

    --
    UPS Sucks
  4. Just another reason to love FreeBSD by blate · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been a FreeBSD fan for several years now. Had I been smarter when I was younger, I would have been a fan even longer than that :)

    FreeBSD, IMHO, comes pretty darned close to Linux in terms of ease of install and, in many ways, exceeds it in ease of use. Configuration files are where you expect them to be. Utilities are named what you expect them to be named.

    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... if you're running FreeBSD, the port will generally work on your system, whether you compile it from sources or download the precompiled package from one of the ftp mirrors.

    Kudos to the FreeBSD team for all their hard work and for giving us such a stable, reliable, useful platform to develop and play on.

    1. Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD by arturogatti · · Score: 5, Informative

      "One place where ports has an advantage, however, IMHO, is that the "database" of available packages lives on your local filesystem... you don't have to go searching around the web for the package you want, and you don't need a GUI to fetch and install packages."

      With apt (assuming you've run "apt-get update" at least once since the system was installed, and thus have package lists to search) you don't need to go online to search the package database. You can use the "apt-cache search" command for this. Just type, for example, "apt-cache search alsa" to produce a list of all packages containing the word "alsa" in their names or descriptions.

    2. Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD by Eraser_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The "...and be done with it" is what I like about FreeBSD. RedHat is a PITA to get software installed on, but we are forced to use it to get a service contract for this new whizbang filtering software we run for the school district.

      Oh, and rock on rc.conf!

  5. awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    congrats!

    I've learned to appreciate both the version stability and back-patching done by Red Hat, and the wonderful selection of customizable ports offered by FreeBSD.

    However since Red Hat seems to be abandoning the small end of the market, little by little, I find myself recommending and using FreeBSD for most folks, unless they need to admin themselves (red hat is a little easier for those folks).

    Now somebody please just get a port for Berkeley's new XML database in there, and we'll be set! :-)

  6. compaq triflex ide controller by jcgf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a linux user that has recently given freebsd a try. I must say that I prefer it over linux. The only thing keeping me from switching full time is the lack of support for the triflex ide controller in my laptop (armada 7400). Linux just got it in 2.4.21 (maybe before in some patch somewhere).
    If anyone knows of a driver in development any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Jared

  7. Re:almost 3 per day by m0rten · · Score: 5, Informative
    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


    You do know that portupgrade reads the /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf file when upgrading, reinstalling, etc ports? This is a excellent place to put your WITH_* knobs. There's even a few examples in the file to get you going..

    Also, I believe they can be put in /etc/make.conf, but then they will be global and will be used for all ports!
  8. NetBSD surpasses 9000 ports: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ported to 9000 CPU architectures ;-)