SCO Skunkware, often referred to as simply “Skunkware”, is a collection of Open Source software projects ported, compiled, and packaged for free redistribution on SCO operating environments. SCO Skunkware packaged components exist for SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, SCO OpenServer 5, SCO OpenServer 6, UnixWare 2, Caldera OpenLinux, Open UNIX 8, and UnixWare 7. SCO Skunkware [...]
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”Compile” is a program that downloads, unpacks, compiles source code tarballs and installs the resulting executable code, all with a single command (such as “Compile foo”) using simple compilation scripts known as “recipes”. Compile is somewhat similar to Gentoo’s Portage system, which is based on the FreeBSD Ports collection and accomplishes the above actions with [...]
In its current version, GNU-Darwin can be installed on top of a preexisting installation of Mac OS X, Darwin or OpenDarwin. The project plans to release a bootable installer that bundles the GNU-Darwin packages with OpenDarwin, thereby creating a one-step install, however after a number of years that has yet to appear. The GNU-Darwin system [...]
Tuomo Valkonen, the author of Ion, has been at the center of several controversies concerning the licensing and distribution of his software, in particular the proclivity of major Linux and BSD distributions of making outdated development versions of Ion3 (the current unstable development branch) available as part of “frozen” software repositories. Often, such versions will [...]
Unlike proprietary software, the project is totally open and the current Git build is always available. The actual release dates apply to standardized and stable release of code, which is then compiled into a executable program. Both the development, the code releases, and the binaries are all created by those who volunteer their time to [...]
Yabause is an open source emulator for the Sega Saturn. It runs mainly on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD and Mac OS X systems using OpenGL and SDL. An unofficial FreeBSD port is available and a primitive Dreamcast port exists, as well as a version for the Wii. In 2007, SofiyaCat begun a PlayStation Portable port. Adapted [...]
In addition to the source code package and binary installers for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, ejabberd is also available in several Operating System distributions as is typical in FOSS, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD Ports, NetBSD port and Mac OS X’s Fink. Other methods in which ejabberd is available are the [...]
Package formats Each package manager relies on the format and metadata of the packages it can manage. That is, package managers need groups of files to be bundled for the specific package manager along with appropriate metadata, such as dependencies. Often, a core set of utilities manages the basic installation from these packages and multiple [...]
The ports collection uses Makefiles arranged in a directory hierarchy so that software can be built, installed and uninstalled with the make command. When installing an application, very little (if any) user intervention is required after issuing a beginning command such as make install or make install clean in the ports directory of the desired [...]
Jordan Hubbard [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk committed] his ”port make macros” to the FreeBSD CVS repository on August 21, 1994. His package install suite [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/Makefile had been committed] a year earlier (August 26, 1993). The core ports framework was at first maintained by Hubbard along with Satoshi Asami for several years. The [http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/ Ports Management Team] was later [...]
Precompiled (binary) ports are called ”packages”. A package can be obtained from the corresponding port with make package command; prebuilt packages are also available for download from the FreeBSD servers. A user can automatically install a package by passing the package name to the pkg_add -r command. This downloads the appropriate package for the user’s [...]
In contrast to FreeBSD Ports, on which it was originally based, the OpenBSD ports system is intended as a source used to create the end product, packages: installing a port first creates a package and then installs it. Packages are made up of a makefile, text files with descriptions and installation messages, any patches required [...]
WeeChat supports a wide variety of platforms and operating systems, including Linux, BSD derivatives (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), Mac OS X, Debian GNU/Hurd / Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, Haiku (was OpenBeOS), and Microsoft Windows (via the Cygwin library and API). Ready-to-use packages and builds of WeeChat are available for a variety of platforms and operating [...]
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