October 13, 2021
A Few Thoughts on Using FreeBSD Packages and Ports
FreeBSD s a complete operating system with a large collection of tools in the base system. FreeBSD also provides two ways for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries.
I am not going to go into how to set up packages or ports, this is well documented at About FreeBSD ports and Installing Applications: Packages and Ports.
When you start installing third party applications on FreeBSD you must decide if you will use ports or packages.
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