Comment Re:BSD loses support from Open Source (Score 1) 149
There is always the new package manager if you don't need any special options and are fine with binaries:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmebsd.com%2Fmake-build-your-freebsd-word%2Fpkgng-first-look-at-freebsds-new-package-manager.html
It easily rivals apt-get but I still stick with the regular ports system because I need to compile several packages (other than the dependancies) myself for the different options not available with binaries and I've never found compiling from source anywhere near as simple on linux distributions as it is on FreeBSD.