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FreeBSD Ports Categories Listed By Groups

Search ports for: All Package Name Description Long description Maintainer Requires

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Ports primarily for end-users

• Accessibility (65) -- Ports to help disabled users.
• Audio (939) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
• Deskutils (320) -- Various Desktop utilities.
• Editors (373) -- Common text editors.
• Finance (175) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
• Games (1173) -- Various and sundry amusements.
• Graphics (1178) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
• Multimedia (437) -- Multimedia software.
• Net-p2p (123) -- Peer to peer networking software.
• Print (406) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
• Shells (47) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
• Textproc (1699) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

• Archivers (225) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
• Databases (935) -- Database software.
• Devel (4776) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
• Emulators (225) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
• Java (560) -- Java language support.
• Lang (503) -- Computer languages.
• Ports-mgmt (84) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
• Security (1119) -- System security software.
• Sysutils (1116) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

• Comms (195) -- Communications utilities.
• Dns (169) -- DNS client and server utilities.
• Ftp (125) -- FTP client and server utilities.
• Irc (152) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
• Mail (835) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
• Net (1487) -- Networking utilities.
• Net-im (194) -- Instant messaging software.
• Net-mgmt (350) -- Network management utilities.
• News (102) -- USENET News support software.
• Www (2811) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

• X11 (502) -- X Window System based utilities.
• X11-clocks (60) -- X Window System based clocks.
• X11-drivers (57) -- X Window System drivers.
• X11-fm (40) -- X Window System based file managers.
• X11-fonts (219) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
• X11-servers (11) -- X Window System servers.
• X11-themes (189) -- X Window System themes.
• X11-toolkits (306) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
• X11-wm (171) -- X Window System window managers.

Ports relating to science and engineering

• Astro (135) -- Applications related to astronomy.
• Biology (103) -- Software related to biology.
• Cad (115) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
• Math (692) -- Mathematical computation software.
• Science (236) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

• Arabic (10) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
• Chinese (144) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
• French (32) -- Ported software for French countries.
• German (48) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
• Hebrew (9) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
• Hungarian (15) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
• Japanese (372) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
• Korean (47) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
• Polish (25) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
• Portuguese (19) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
• Russian (60) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
• Spanish (3) -- Ported software for the Spanish market.
• Ukrainian (17) -- Ported software for the Ukrainian market.
• Vietnamese (24) -- Ported software for the Vietnamese market.

Ports in virtual categories (secondary groupings to above)

• Afterstep (31) -- Ports to support the AfterStep window manager.
• Docs (20) -- Meta-ports for FreeBSD documentation.
• Elisp (140) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
• Enlightenment (109) -- Enlightenment Desktop environment.
• Geography (96) -- Geography related ports.
• Gnome (535) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
• Gnustep (128) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
• Hamradio (69) -- Software for amateur radio.
• Haskell (349) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
• Ipv6 (663) -- IPv6 related software.
• Kde (634) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
• Kld (70) -- Kernel loadable modules.
• Linux (267) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
• Lisp (57) -- Things related to pure lisp.
• Mbone (3) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
• Parallel (37) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
• Pear (467) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
• Perl5 (4816) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
• Plan9 (4) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
• Python (1598) -- Software related to the Python language.
• Ruby (257) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
• Rubygems (527) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
• Scheme (43) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
• Tcl (79) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
• Tk (107) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
• Windowmaker (85) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
• Xfce (66) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
• Zope (242) -- Software related to the Zope platform.

All other ports

• Benchmarks (81) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
• Converters (199) -- Format conversion utilities.
• Misc (585) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
• Palm (40) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.