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Ports primarily for end-users

  • Accessibility (56) -- Ports to help disabled users.
  • Audio (919) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
  • Deskutils (308) -- Various Desktop utilities.
  • Editors (304) -- Common text editors.
  • Finance (95) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
  • Games (1117) -- Various and sundry amusements.
  • Graphics (1065) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
  • Multimedia (350) -- Multimedia software.
  • Net-p2p (140) -- Peer to peer networking software.
  • Print (450) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
  • Shells (49) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
  • Textproc (1403) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

  • Archivers (205) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
  • Databases (758) -- Database software.
  • Devel (3516) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
  • Emulators (230) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
  • Java (506) -- Java language support.
  • Lang (511) -- Computer languages.
  • Ports-mgmt (65) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
  • Security (1003) -- System security software.
  • Sysutils (964) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

  • Comms (180) -- Communications utilities.
  • Dns (146) -- DNS client and server utilities.
  • Ftp (130) -- FTP client and server utilities.
  • Irc (153) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
  • Mail (816) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
  • Mbone (14) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
  • Net (1321) -- Networking utilities.
  • Net-im (171) -- Instant messaging software.
  • Net-mgmt (283) -- Network management utilities.
  • News (117) -- USENET News support software.
  • Www (2397) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

  • X11 (525) -- X Window System based utilities.
  • X11-clocks (64) -- X Window System based clocks.
  • X11-drivers (68) -- X Window System drivers.
  • X11-fm (43) -- X Window System based file managers.
  • X11-fonts (205) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
  • X11-servers (11) -- X Window System servers.
  • X11-themes (212) -- 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 (117) -- Applications related to astronomy.
  • Biology (103) -- Software related to biology.
  • Cad (98) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
  • Math (568) -- Mathematical computation software.
  • Science (161) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

  • Arabic (10) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
  • Chinese (140) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
  • French (28) -- Ported software for French countries.
  • German (42) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
  • Hebrew (8) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
  • Hungarian (12) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
  • Japanese (390) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
  • Korean (63) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
  • Polish (21) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
  • Portuguese (16) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
  • Russian (51) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
  • Spanish (4) -- Ported software for the Spanish market.
  • Ukrainian (13) -- 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 (145) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
  • Geography (74) -- Geography related ports.
  • Gnome (582) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
  • Gnustep (194) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
  • Hamradio (61) -- Software for amateur radio.
  • Haskell (55) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
  • Ipv6 (754) -- IPv6 related software.
  • Kde (560) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Kld (64) -- Kernel loadable modules.
  • Linux (366) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
  • Lisp (31) -- Things related to pure lisp.
  • Parallel (41) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
  • Pear (337) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
  • Perl5 (3834) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
  • Plan9 (7) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
  • Python (983) -- Software related to the Python language.
  • Ruby (312) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
  • Rubygems (207) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
  • Scheme (47) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
  • Tcl (82) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk (123) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
  • Windowmaker (121) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
  • Xfce (65) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
  • Zope (53) -- Software related to the Zope platform.

All other ports

  • Benchmarks (74) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
  • Converters (163) -- Format conversion utilities.
  • Misc (565) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
  • Palm (50) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.