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Ports primarily for end-users

  • Accessibility (60) -- Ports to help disabled users.
  • Audio (810) -- Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card.
  • Deskutils (232) -- Various Desktop utilities.
  • Editors (285) -- Common text editors.
  • Finance (70) -- Monetary, financial and related applications.
  • Games (989) -- Various and sundry amusements.
  • Graphics (857) -- Graphics libraries and utilities.
  • Multimedia (285) -- Multimedia software.
  • Net-p2p (124) -- Peer to peer networking software.
  • Print (408) -- Utilities for dealing with printing.
  • Shells (39) -- Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc).
  • Textproc (1156) -- Text processing/search utilities.

Ports primarily for system administrators and developers

  • Archivers (159) -- Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data.
  • Databases (561) -- Database software.
  • Devel (2581) -- Software development utilities and libraries.
  • Emulators (184) -- Utilities for emulating other OS types.
  • Java (403) -- Java language support.
  • Lang (421) -- Computer languages.
  • Ports-mgmt (49) -- Utilities for managing ports and packages.
  • Security (877) -- System security software.
  • Sysutils (776) -- Various system utilities.

Ports relating to computer communications and the Internet

  • Comms (150) -- Communications utilities.
  • Dns (123) -- DNS client and server utilities.
  • Ftp (121) -- FTP client and server utilities.
  • Irc (132) -- Internet Relay Chat utilities.
  • Mail (728) -- Electronic mail packages and utilities.
  • Mbone (18) -- Applications and utilities for the MBONE.
  • Net (1140) -- Networking utilities.
  • Net-im (140) -- Instant messaging software.
  • Net-mgmt (228) -- Network management utilities.
  • News (116) -- USENET News support software.
  • Www (1742) -- WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc).

Ports relating to the X Window System

  • X11 (388) -- X Window System based utilities.
  • X11-clocks (56) -- X Window System based clocks.
  • X11-fm (40) -- X Window System based file managers.
  • X11-fonts (137) -- X Window System fonts and font utilities.
  • X11-servers (18) -- X Window System servers.
  • X11-themes (190) -- X Window System themes.
  • X11-toolkits (297) -- X Window System based development toolkits.
  • X11-wm (123) -- X Window System window managers.

Ports relating to science and engineering

  • Astro (89) -- Applications related to astronomy.
  • Biology (83) -- Software related to biology.
  • Cad (85) -- Computer Aided Design utilities.
  • Math (420) -- Mathematical computation software.
  • Science (121) -- Scientific software.

Ports relating to human languages

  • Arabic (11) -- Ported software for the Arabic market.
  • Chinese (139) -- Ported software for the Chinese market.
  • French (24) -- Ported software for French countries.
  • German (37) -- Ported software for Germanic countries.
  • Hebrew (7) -- Ported software for Hebrew language.
  • Hungarian (12) -- Ported software for the Hungarian market.
  • Japanese (436) -- Ported software for the Japanese market.
  • Korean (61) -- Ported software for the Korean market.
  • Polish (19) -- Ported software for the Polish market.
  • Portuguese (14) -- Ported software for the Portuguese market.
  • Russian (47) -- Ported software for the Russian 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 (34) -- Ports to support the AfterStep window manager.
  • Elisp (167) -- Things related to Emacs Lisp.
  • Gnome (522) -- Components of the Gnome Desktop environment.
  • Gnustep (167) -- Software for GNUstep desktop environment.
  • Hamradio (40) -- Software for amateur radio.
  • Haskell (28) -- Software related to the Haskell language.
  • Ipv6 (711) -- IPv6 related software.
  • Kde (395) -- Software for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Linux (222) -- Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility.
  • Lisp (30) -- Things related to pure lisp.
  • Parallel (35) -- Applications dealing with parallelism in computing.
  • Pear (199) -- Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system.
  • Perl5 (2879) -- Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language.
  • Plan9 (10) -- Software from the Plan9 operating system.
  • Python (655) -- Software related to the Python language.
  • Ruby (298) -- Software related to the Ruby language.
  • Rubygems (62) -- Packages for the RubyGems system.
  • Scheme (45) -- Software related to the Scheme language.
  • Tcl80 (6) -- TCL v8.0 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tcl82 (3) -- TCL v8.2 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tcl83 (12) -- TCL v8.3 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tcl84 (69) -- TCL v8.4 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk80 (11) -- Tk8.0 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk82 (10) -- Tk8.2 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk83 (10) -- Tk8.3 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tk84 (98) -- Tk8.4 and packages which depend on it.
  • Tkstep80 (6) -- tkstep wm and packages which depend on it.
  • Windowmaker (124) -- Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager.
  • Xfce (57) -- Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment.
  • Zope (52) -- Software related to the Zope platform.

All other ports

  • Benchmarks (66) -- Utilities for measuring system performance.
  • Converters (135) -- Format conversion utilities.
  • Misc (499) -- Miscellaneous utilities.
  • Palm (43) -- Software support for the Palm(tm) series.