The FreeBSD Project

[Alex Koch]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:19:08 -0700 (PDT), Ronald Maggio
<ron_maggio2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> There's also a cd for the ports system (all the 3rd party software). 
> 
> Whats a Ports System???
> 
> 
> You can donwload & compile software off the web, or use packages from
> the cd.
> 
> Well it comes with 4 cd's so I'm sure its full of software!
> 
> Thanks for you input.
> 
> Ron


BSD's port system is a collection of non-essential software, along
with an easy method of installing it, keeping track of dependencies,
including BSD specific patches and configurations, updating, etc. 
Things like apache, x-windows, mozilla and bash would be found and
could be installed by using the ports system.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/  lists the software that can be installed.

~ Alex