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Ports primarily for end-users

  • Accessibility (50) -- Ports to help disabled users.
  • Audio (944) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
  • Deskutils (288) -- Various Desktop utilities.
  • Editors (354) -- Common text editors.
  • Finance (139) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
  • Games (1194) -- Various and sundry amusements.
  • Graphics (1284) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
  • Multimedia (502) -- Multimedia software.
  • Net-p2p (111) -- Peer to peer networking software.
  • Print (333) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
  • Shells (65) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
  • Textproc (2236) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

  • Archivers (296) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
  • Databases (1203) -- Database software.
  • Devel (8227) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
  • Emulators (207) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
  • Java (564) -- Java language support.
  • Lang (548) -- Computer languages.
  • Ports-mgmt (72) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
  • Security (1556) -- System security software.
  • Sysutils (1652) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

  • Comms (233) -- Communications utilities.
  • Dns (258) -- DNS client and server utilities.
  • Ftp (114) -- FTP client and server utilities.
  • Irc (126) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
  • Mail (961) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
  • Net (1946) -- Networking utilities.
  • Net-im (197) -- Instant messaging software.
  • Net-mgmt (444) -- Network management utilities.
  • News (80) -- USENET News support software.
  • Www (3908) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

  • X11 (564) -- X Window System based utilities.
  • X11-clocks (44) -- X Window System based clocks.
  • X11-drivers (44) -- X Window System drivers.
  • X11-fm (32) -- X Window System based file managers.
  • X11-fonts (339) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
  • X11-servers (14) -- X Window System servers.
  • X11-themes (150) -- X Window System themes.
  • X11-toolkits (253) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
  • X11-wm (121) -- X Window System window managers.

Ports relating to science and engineering

  • Astro (133) -- Applications related to astronomy.
  • Biology (187) -- Software related to biology.
  • Cad (155) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
  • Math (1062) -- Mathematical computation software.
  • Science (396) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

  • Arabic (8) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
  • Chinese (138) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
  • French (14) -- Ported software for French countries.
  • German (21) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
  • Hebrew (7) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
  • Hungarian (9) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
  • Japanese (312) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
  • Korean (42) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
  • Polish (15) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
  • Portuguese (9) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
  • Russian (36) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
  • Spanish (5) -- Ported software for the Spanish market.
  • Ukrainian (12) -- Ported software for the Ukrainian market.
  • Vietnamese (16) -- Ported software for the Vietnamese market.

Ports in virtual categories (secondary groupings to above)

  • Afterstep (21) -- Ports to support the AfterStep window manager.
  • Docs (21) -- Meta-ports for FreeBSD documentation.
  • Elisp (322) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
  • Enlightenment (14) -- Enlightenment Desktop environment.
  • Geography (115) -- Geography related ports.
  • Gnome (361) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
  • Gnustep (97) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
  • Hamradio (105) -- Software for amateur radio.
  • Haskell (49) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
  • Kde (461) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Kld (68) -- Kernel loadable modules.
  • Linux (160) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
  • Lisp (40) -- Things related to pure lisp.
  • Mate (38) -- Components of the MATE Desktop environment.
  • Mbone (2) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
  • Net-vpn (31) -- Software related to virtual private networks
  • Parallel (29) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
  • Pear (1396) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
  • Perl5 (5719) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
  • Plan9 (3) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
  • Python (3200) -- Software related to the Python language.
  • Ruby (101) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
  • Rubygems (2459) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
  • Scheme (29) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
  • Tcl (61) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk (75) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
  • Windowmaker (59) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
  • Xfce (71) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
  • Zope (44) -- Software related to the Zope platform.

All other ports

  • Benchmarks (121) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
  • Converters (230) -- Format conversion utilities.
  • Misc (557) -- Miscellaneous utilities.