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		wglb on Jan 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD Note that the package system used by OpenBSD is explicitly borrowed from FreeBSD.

brynet on Jan 14, 2015 [–]

That's not true. OpenBSD's package system was rewritten by Marc Espie many years ago in perl, the utility names are inherited from FreeBSD, but are now otherwise unrelated.

wglb on Jan 14, 2015 | [–]

Ah, I misquoted. On the page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html, they point out that the ports tree concept was borrowed from FreeBSD.

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