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FreeBSD Ports Categories Listed By Groups
Ports primarily for end-users
- Accessibility (59) -- Ports to help disabled users.
- Audio (924) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
- Deskutils (311) -- Various Desktop utilities.
- Editors (331) -- Common text editors.
- Finance (97) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
- Games (1127) -- Various and sundry amusements.
- Graphics (1087) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
- Multimedia (367) -- Multimedia software.
- Net-p2p (141) -- Peer to peer networking software.
- Print (454) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
- Shells (48) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
- Textproc (1432) -- Text processing/search utilities.
Ports primarily for system administrators and developers
- Archivers (204) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
- Databases (780) -- Database software.
- Devel (3672) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
- Emulators (234) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
- Java (522) -- Java language support.
- Lang (509) -- Computer languages.
- Ports-mgmt (65) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
- Security (1019) -- System security software.
- Sysutils (990) -- Various system utilities.
Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet
- Comms (186) -- Communications utilities.
- Dns (151) -- DNS client and server utilities.
- Ftp (129) -- FTP client and server utilities.
- Irc (154) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
- Mail (833) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
- Mbone (14) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
- Net (1348) -- Networking utilities.
- Net-im (178) -- Instant messaging software.
- Net-mgmt (293) -- Network management utilities.
- News (117) -- USENET News support software.
- Www (2478) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).
Ports relating to the X Window System
- X11 (531) -- X Window System based utilities.
- X11-clocks (64) -- X Window System based clocks.
- X11-drivers (67) -- X Window System drivers.
- X11-fm (43) -- X Window System based file managers.
- X11-fonts (210) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
- X11-servers (11) -- X Window System servers.
- X11-themes (216) -- X Window System themes.
- X11-toolkits (326) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
- X11-wm (145) -- X Window System window managers.
Ports relating to science and engineering
- Astro (118) -- Applications related to astronomy.
- Biology (105) -- Software related to biology.
- Cad (109) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
- Math (582) -- Mathematical computation software.
- Science (179) -- Scientific software.
Ports relating to human languages
- Arabic (10) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
- Chinese (145) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
- French (29) -- Ported software for French countries.
- German (43) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
- Hebrew (8) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
- Hungarian (12) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
- Japanese (398) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
- Korean (63) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
- Polish (22) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
- Portuguese (18) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
- Russian (55) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
- Spanish (4) -- Ported software for the Spanish market.
- Ukrainian (14) -- Ported software for the Ukrainian market.
- Vietnamese (21) -- Ported software for the Vietnamese market.
Ports in virtual categories (secondary groupings to above)
- Afterstep (35) -- Ports to support the AfterStep window manager.
- Docs (20) -- Meta-ports for FreeBSD documentation.
- Elisp (152) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
- Geography (77) -- Geography related ports.
- Gnome (590) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
- Gnustep (194) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
- Hamradio (61) -- Software for amateur radio.
- Haskell (120) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
- Ipv6 (758) -- IPv6 related software.
- Kde (591) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
- Kld (68) -- Kernel loadable modules.
- Linux (372) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
- Lisp (51) -- Things related to pure lisp.
- Parallel (41) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
- Pear (346) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
- Perl5 (3943) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
- Plan9 (7) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
- Python (1028) -- Software related to the Python language.
- Ruby (313) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
- Rubygems (225) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
- Scheme (46) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
- Tcl (78) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
- Tk (122) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
- Windowmaker (121) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
- Xfce (67) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
- Zope (53) -- Software related to the Zope platform.
All other ports
- Benchmarks (76) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
- Converters (171) -- Format conversion utilities.
- Misc (569) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
- Palm (49) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.