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Ports primarily for end-users

  • Accessibility (68) -- Ports to help disabled users.
  • Audio (893) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
  • Deskutils (286) -- Various Desktop utilities.
  • Editors (250) -- Common text editors.
  • Finance (89) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
  • Games (1080) -- Various and sundry amusements.
  • Graphics (982) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
  • Multimedia (316) -- Multimedia software.
  • Net-p2p (139) -- Peer to peer networking software.
  • Print (434) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
  • Shells (42) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
  • Textproc (1304) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

  • Archivers (190) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
  • Databases (681) -- Database software.
  • Devel (3158) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
  • Emulators (218) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
  • Java (479) -- Java language support.
  • Lang (463) -- Computer languages.
  • Ports-mgmt (59) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
  • Security (969) -- System security software.
  • Sysutils (904) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

  • Comms (178) -- Communications utilities.
  • Dns (140) -- DNS client and server utilities.
  • Ftp (124) -- FTP client and server utilities.
  • Irc (151) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
  • Mail (797) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
  • Mbone (17) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
  • Net (1267) -- Networking utilities.
  • Net-im (158) -- Instant messaging software.
  • Net-mgmt (272) -- Network management utilities.
  • News (118) -- USENET News support software.
  • Www (2219) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

  • X11 (520) -- X Window System based utilities.
  • X11-clocks (61) -- X Window System based clocks.
  • X11-drivers (68) -- X Window System drivers.
  • X11-fm (40) -- X Window System based file managers.
  • X11-fonts (198) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
  • X11-servers (11) -- X Window System servers.
  • X11-themes (206) -- X Window System themes.
  • X11-toolkits (315) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
  • X11-wm (137) -- X Window System window managers.

Ports relating to science and engineering

  • Astro (102) -- Applications related to astronomy.
  • Biology (93) -- Software related to biology.
  • Cad (96) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
  • Math (540) -- Mathematical computation software.
  • Science (149) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

  • Arabic (9) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
  • Chinese (141) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
  • French (26) -- Ported software for French countries.
  • German (40) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
  • Hebrew (7) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
  • Hungarian (12) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
  • Japanese (378) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
  • Korean (62) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
  • Polish (21) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
  • Portuguese (16) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
  • Russian (50) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
  • Spanish (7) -- 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.
  • Elisp (143) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
  • Geography (70) -- Geography related ports.
  • Gnome (574) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
  • Gnustep (191) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
  • Hamradio (57) -- Software for amateur radio.
  • Haskell (47) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
  • Ipv6 (746) -- IPv6 related software.
  • Kde (504) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Kld (54) -- Kernel loadable modules.
  • Linux (229) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
  • Lisp (31) -- Things related to pure lisp.
  • Parallel (42) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
  • Pear (327) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
  • Perl5 (3430) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
  • Plan9 (8) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
  • Python (854) -- Software related to the Python language.
  • Ruby (307) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
  • Rubygems (143) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
  • Scheme (45) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
  • Tcl (84) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk (131) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
  • Windowmaker (120) -- 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 (72) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
  • Converters (145) -- Format conversion utilities.
  • Misc (577) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
  • Palm (49) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.