freshports
The website part of FreshPorts (by FreshPorts)
freebsd-ports
By gitlab-FreeBSD
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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
freshports
Posts with mentions or reviews of freshports.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-04.
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NetBSD 10.0 RC1 (Nov 5, 2023)
> FreeBSD Ports/packages are a great collection of software (~30000);
31969 per the "Statistics" sidebar at:
* https://www.freshports.org
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Struggling to set up wireless, gui login, gnome
For simplicity: FreshPorts is our friend.
- A few basic question about open bsd from a long time linux user who do not want to ask basic questions every 5 minutes. So I put them in one post.
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FreeBSD as a daily driver
You might want to check Freshports for more details on available software.
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ManjarNo please
I agree. The lack of hardware support is a long-standing pain of all BSD systems. It is probably easier for me to use Free/OpenBSD as a desktop system because I do not follow software "fashions". I have enough for my needs. Although if you explore [freshports](www.freshports.org), you may suddenly find that there are programs for every task.
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FreshPorts now supports searching USES=
… at https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/22
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Random hang, is that common ?
Where src is a requirement, maybe offer a hint · Issue #365 · FreshPorts/freshports
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Im a longtime linux user and BSD noob, I have few questions in order to fill some basic gaps
I'd look at freshports to search for software that's available on FreeBSD. Most things should probably work just fine.
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Which ISO should I choose? (BSD newbie)
Probably in between but you can move towards either side. Check out freshports to search for ports (what packages are built from).
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Freebsd for the very first time
Also check out https://www.freshports.org/ for all the software packages available.
freebsd-ports
Posts with mentions or reviews of freebsd-ports.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-12.
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Guide me to switching to BSD
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/?h=2022Q1 | https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/2022Q1 | https://gitlab.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports/-/tree/2022Q1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing freshports and freebsd-ports you can also consider the following projects:
freebsd-ports - FreeBSD ports tree (read-only mirror)
linux-browser-installer - Script to install Linux browsers under a Linux chroot on FreeBSD
xconfig - xconfig is an automation tool to set up X11 for GhostBSD
scripts - Various scripts I wrote when using FreeBSD/Linux/UNIX systems for 15+ years.
manjarno - Why you shouldn't use Manjaro
matrix.to - A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code