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Ports primarily for end-users

  • Accessibility (68) -- Ports to help disabled users.
  • Audio (852) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
  • Deskutils (250) -- Various Desktop utilities.
  • Editors (265) -- Common text editors.
  • Finance (82) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
  • Games (1041) -- Various and sundry amusements.
  • Graphics (928) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
  • Multimedia (297) -- Multimedia software.
  • Net-p2p (134) -- Peer to peer networking software.
  • Print (438) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
  • Shells (42) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
  • Textproc (1250) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

  • Archivers (176) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
  • Databases (630) -- Database software.
  • Devel (2905) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
  • Emulators (204) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
  • Java (450) -- Java language support.
  • Lang (449) -- Computer languages.
  • Ports-mgmt (57) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
  • Security (937) -- System security software.
  • Sysutils (858) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

  • Comms (165) -- Communications utilities.
  • Dns (133) -- DNS client and server utilities.
  • Ftp (123) -- FTP client and server utilities.
  • Irc (139) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
  • Mail (773) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
  • Mbone (18) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
  • Net (1220) -- Networking utilities.
  • Net-im (148) -- Instant messaging software.
  • Net-mgmt (258) -- Network management utilities.
  • News (118) -- USENET News support software.
  • Www (2012) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

  • X11 (513) -- X Window System based utilities.
  • X11-clocks (58) -- X Window System based clocks.
  • X11-drivers (64) -- X Window System drivers.
  • X11-fm (39) -- X Window System based file managers.
  • X11-fonts (191) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
  • X11-servers (11) -- X Window System servers.
  • X11-themes (199) -- X Window System themes.
  • X11-toolkits (303) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
  • X11-wm (145) -- X Window System window managers.

Ports relating to science and engineering

  • Astro (94) -- Applications related to astronomy.
  • Biology (87) -- Software related to biology.
  • Cad (92) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
  • Math (447) -- Mathematical computation software.
  • Science (135) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

  • Arabic (10) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
  • Chinese (143) -- 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 (422) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
  • Korean (61) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
  • Polish (19) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
  • Portuguese (15) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
  • Russian (47) -- Ported software for the Russian market.
  • Spanish (7) -- Ported software for the Spanish market.
  • Ukrainian (12) -- 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 (141) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
  • Geography (64) -- Geography related ports.
  • Gnome (554) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
  • Gnustep (169) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
  • Hamradio (53) -- Software for amateur radio.
  • Haskell (36) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
  • Ipv6 (724) -- IPv6 related software.
  • Kde (409) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Kld (50) -- Kernel loadable modules.
  • Linux (241) -- 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 (280) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
  • Perl5 (3120) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
  • Plan9 (10) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
  • Python (727) -- Software related to the Python language.
  • Ruby (301) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
  • Rubygems (101) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
  • Scheme (44) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
  • Tcl (84) -- TCL and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk (127) -- Tk and packages which depend on it.
  • Windowmaker (120) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
  • Xfce (64) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
  • Zope (53) -- Software related to the Zope platform.

All other ports

  • Benchmarks (70) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
  • Converters (140) -- Format conversion utilities.
  • Misc (519) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
  • Palm (43) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.