Synopsis

Just like RPM Package Manager, FreeBSD Ports collection is where users and administrators to install application that has been ported for FreeBSD. At the time of writing, there are more than 19,000 ports available. Ports can be searched via official FreeBSD ports page or use one of the following commands on your FreeBSD machine :

# make search name=[port's name]
example: make search name=vim

or

# make search key=[keywords]
example: make search key="text editor"

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Ports Tree and keeping it up-to-date, as well as install application from ports.

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Synopsis

To provide step-by-step guide on how to install a FreeBSD operating system. At the time of writing, FreeBSD7 is the latest version. However this guide is written to be as general as possible that could be applied for any version of FreeBSD.

In this guide, FreeBSD7 will be installed on Guest Computer of VMware Server 2.

What is FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is an advanced open source Operating System that can run under different hardware architectures, such as, but not limited to: x86, UltraSPARC, and ARM. For more information about FreeBSD, please read FreeBSD page at Wikipedia.

Why FreeBSD?

FreeBSD is a robust and a reliable operating system. Compare to other free operating system, it’s regarded to have the longest uptime. This is extremely important for high availability server. FreeBSD has its Ports collection (Like RPM for RedHat, and DEB for Debian), which provides an easy and consistent way of installing software package. It has over 19,000 ports available in the collection.

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