[TriLUG] Mandrake Linux 8.2-beta1 is out!

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:36, John Beimler wrote:
 
> And if you think apt or urpmi is cool, try the FreeBSD ports collection
> :) Version 4.5 was officially released today (http://www.freebsd.org).
> 

Is there anyone here that can explain what ports is?  From the
above comment, I assume it's something similar to apt or urpmi,
but I'd like to know more.

Thanks,
Tanner
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