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| Category | Count | Description | Last Update |
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| 0 accessibility | 37 | Ports to help disabled users. | 10 Apr 2026 15:57:27 |
| 1 afterstep* | 21 | Ports to support the AfterStep window manager. | 30 Sep 2025 07:12:26 |
| 2 arabic | 9 | Ported software for the Arabic market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 3 archivers | 306 | Utilities for archiving and unarchiving data. | 11 Apr 2026 19:41:41 |
| 4 astro | 154 | Applications related to astronomy. | 06 Apr 2026 00:33:31 |
| 5 audio | 904 | Audio utilities - most require a supported sound card. | 14 Apr 2026 05:44:52 |
| 6 benchmarks | 120 | Utilities for measuring system performance. | 13 Apr 2026 00:31:58 |
| 7 biology | 254 | Software related to biology. | 14 Apr 2026 07:12:39 |
| 8 budgie* | 8 | no description supplied | 13 Feb 2026 15:38:00 |
| 9 cad | 166 | Computer Aided Design utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 20:31:51 |
| 10 chinese | 132 | Ported software for the Chinese market. | 10 Apr 2026 09:40:53 |
| 11 comms | 239 | Communications utilities. | 13 Apr 2026 16:14:08 |
| 12 converters | 187 | Format conversion utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 12:01:24 |
| 13 databases | 1160 | Database software. | 14 Apr 2026 19:40:41 |
| 14 deskutils | 326 | Various Desktop utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 20:43:45 |
| 15 devel | 8757 | Software development utilities and libraries. | 14 Apr 2026 21:35:35 |
| 16 dns | 251 | DNS client and server utilities. | 13 Apr 2026 07:20:14 |
| 17 docs* | 23 | no description supplied | 28 Mar 2026 12:03:11 |
| 18 editors | 307 | Common text editors. | 14 Apr 2026 02:01:40 |
| 19 education* | 67 | no description supplied | 05 Apr 2026 19:45:01 |
| 20 elisp* | 99 | Things related to Emacs Lisp. | 14 Apr 2026 13:08:39 |
| 21 emulators | 207 | Utilities for emulating other OS types. | 11 Apr 2026 13:38:01 |
| 22 enlightenment* | 16 | no description supplied | 04 Jan 2026 20:38:24 |
| 23 erlang* | | no description supplied | |
| 24 filesystems | 150 | File systems and related utilities | 10 Apr 2026 15:57:27 |
| 25 finance | 157 | Monetary, financial and related applications. | 13 Apr 2026 13:56:18 |
| 26 french | 13 | Ported software for French countries. | 03 Apr 2026 20:52:43 |
| 27 ftp | 96 | FTP client and server utilities. | 10 Apr 2026 20:26:06 |
| 28 games | 1171 | Various and sundry amusements. | 14 Apr 2026 18:07:45 |
| 29 geography* | 115 | Geography related ports. | 14 Apr 2026 12:01:24 |
| 30 german | 19 | Ported software for Germanic countries. | 05 Apr 2026 17:19:47 |
| 31 gnome* | 362 | Components of the Gnome Desktop environment. | 14 Apr 2026 20:43:45 |
| 32 gnustep* | 87 | Software for GNUstep desktop environment. | 06 Apr 2026 00:33:31 |
| 33 graphics | 1336 | Graphics libraries and utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 11:32:03 |
| 34 hamradio* | 110 | Software for amateur radio. | 13 Apr 2026 16:14:08 |
| 35 haskell* | 66 | Software related to the Haskell language. | 13 Apr 2026 10:19:59 |
| 36 hebrew | 7 | Ported software for Hebrew language. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 37 hungarian | 7 | Ported software for the Hungarian market. | 02 Apr 2026 21:06:57 |
| 38 ipv6* | | IPv6 related software. | |
| 39 irc | 95 | Internet Relay Chat utilities. | 11 Apr 2026 19:41:40 |
| 40 japanese | 301 | Ported software for the Japanese market. | 13 Apr 2026 22:27:52 |
| 41 java | 99 | Java language support. | 13 Apr 2026 13:07:20 |
| 42 kde* | 553 | Software for the K Desktop Environment. | 10 Apr 2026 11:17:22 |
| 43 kde-applications* | 230 | no description supplied | 24 Mar 2026 11:52:33 |
| 44 kde-devel* | | no description supplied | |
| 45 kde-frameworks* | 145 | no description supplied | 10 Apr 2026 11:17:22 |
| 46 kde-kde4* | | no description supplied | |
| 47 kde-plasma* | 55 | no description supplied | 08 Apr 2026 15:37:38 |
| 48 kld* | 106 | Kernel loadable modules. | 03 Apr 2026 20:46:30 |
| 49 korean | 51 | Ported software for the Korean market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 50 lang | 398 | Computer languages. | 14 Apr 2026 12:01:24 |
| 51 linux* | 302 | Linux programs that can be run under binary compatibility. | 10 Apr 2026 09:19:19 |
| 52 lisp* | 64 | Things related to pure lisp. | 02 Apr 2026 21:06:57 |
| 53 mail | 774 | Electronic mail packages and utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 17:24:18 |
| 54 mate* | 39 | no description supplied | 13 Apr 2026 07:22:43 |
| 55 math | 1328 | Mathematical computation software. | 14 Apr 2026 18:58:24 |
| 56 mbone | | Applications and utilities for the MBONE. | |
| 57 misc | 790 | Miscellaneous utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 19:40:41 |
| 58 multimedia | 411 | Multimedia software. | 14 Apr 2026 17:06:00 |
| 59 net | 1741 | Networking utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 14:58:27 |
| 60 net-im | 179 | Instant messaging software. | 14 Apr 2026 08:19:16 |
| 61 net-mgmt | 441 | Network management utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 20:49:12 |
| 62 net-p2p | 106 | Peer to peer networking software. | 11 Apr 2026 07:22:58 |
| 63 net-vpn* | 41 | no description supplied | 10 Apr 2026 15:57:27 |
| 64 news | 65 | USENET News support software. | 07 Apr 2026 00:05:57 |
| 65 offix* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 66 palm | | Software support for the Palm(tm) series. | |
| 67 paralell* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 68 parallel* | 37 | Applications dealing with parallelism in computing. | 14 Apr 2026 01:59:59 |
| 69 pear* | 445 | Utilities/modules that fall into the PEAR system. | 12 Apr 2026 20:47:03 |
| 70 perl* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 71 perl5* | 5891 | Utilities/modules for the PERL5 language. | 14 Apr 2026 11:30:41 |
| 72 php* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 73 picobsd | | Software support for the 3Com Palm(tm) series | |
| 74 plan9* | 3 | Software from the Plan9 operating system. | 01 Oct 2025 19:18:58 |
| 75 polish | 11 | Ported software for the Polish market. | 05 Apr 2026 17:19:48 |
| 76 ports-mgmt | 83 | Utilities for managing ports and packages. | 14 Apr 2026 19:50:42 |
| 77 portuguese | 9 | Ported software for the Portuguese market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 78 print | 273 | Utilities for dealing with printing. | 14 Apr 2026 19:58:32 |
| 79 python* | 5027 | Software related to the Python language. | 14 Apr 2026 20:36:11 |
| 80 python:2.7* | | no description supplied | |
| 81 ruby* | 93 | Software related to the Ruby language. | 13 Apr 2026 04:58:51 |
| 82 rubygems* | 3410 | Packages for the RubyGems system. | 10 Apr 2026 08:18:02 |
| 83 russian | 31 | Ported software for the Russian market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 84 scheme* | 28 | Software related to the Scheme language. | 08 Apr 2026 07:11:51 |
| 85 science | 529 | Scientific software. | 14 Apr 2026 11:38:05 |
| 86 security | 1472 | System security software. | 14 Apr 2026 21:06:34 |
| 87 shells | 80 | Various shells (tcsh, bash, etc). | 14 Apr 2026 19:40:41 |
| 88 spanish* | 5 | Ported software for the Spanish market. | 06 Nov 2023 10:03:47 |
| 89 sysutils | 1683 | Various system utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 15:39:44 |
| 90 tcl* | 58 | no description supplied | 08 Apr 2026 12:24:54 |
| 91 tcl80* | | TCL v8.0 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 92 tcl81* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 93 tcl82* | | TCL v8.2 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 94 tcl83* | | TCL v8.3 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 95 tcl84* | | TCL v8.4 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 96 textproc | 2278 | Text processing/search utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 19:40:42 |
| 97 tk* | 70 | no description supplied | 12 Apr 2026 18:58:14 |
| 98 tk42* | | This is a virtual category. No description is available. | |
| 99 tk80* | | Tk8.0 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 100 tk82* | | Tk8.2 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 101 tk83* | | Tk8.3 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 102 tk84* | | Tk8.4 and packages which depend on it. | |
| 103 tkstep80* | | tkstep wm and packages which depend on it. | |
| 104 ukrainian | 9 | Ported software for the Ukrainian market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 105 vietnamese | 16 | Ported software for the Vietnamese market. | 31 Mar 2026 00:03:31 |
| 106 wayland* | 186 | no description supplied | 14 Apr 2026 07:12:40 |
| 107 windowmaker* | 61 | Ports to support the WindowMaker window manager. | 17 Mar 2026 21:29:31 |
| 108 www | 2748 | WEB utilities (browsers, HTTP servers, etc). | 14 Apr 2026 20:36:11 |
| 109 x11 | 709 | X Window System based utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 09:56:30 |
| 110 x11-clocks | 46 | X Window System based clocks. | 06 Apr 2026 00:33:31 |
| 111 x11-drivers | 48 | X Window System drivers. | 02 Mar 2026 21:36:06 |
| 112 x11-fm | 30 | X Window System based file managers. | 10 Apr 2026 12:09:06 |
| 113 x11-fonts | 425 | X Window System fonts and font utilities. | 14 Apr 2026 08:15:56 |
| 114 x11-servers | 10 | X Window System servers. | 14 Apr 2026 21:38:31 |
| 115 x11-themes | 179 | X Window System themes. | 10 Apr 2026 11:17:22 |
| 116 x11-toolkits | 277 | X Window System based development toolkits. | 11 Apr 2026 11:46:27 |
| 117 x11-wm | 135 | X Window System window managers. | 11 Apr 2026 20:59:26 |
| 118 xfce* | 72 | Ports to support the Xfce desktop environment. | 02 Apr 2026 06:46:28 |
| 119 zope* | 4 | Software related to the Zope platform. | 19 Jun 2025 20:28:47 |
| port count: | 34332 | (65 real categories) |
| Hmmm, I'm not so sure this port count is accurate. Dan Langille 27 April 2003 |
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