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FreeBSD in Bioinformatics
Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Monday, March 12, 2001 (2 comments)

Johann Visagie writes (on the BiO Bulletin Board), ``Some list members may be interested to know that there is a small but concerted effort underway by FreeBSD users in bioinformatics (and other bioscientific computing fields) to add as many applications as possible to the FreeBSD ports tree.

``The FreeBSD ports tree has gained some fame even outside the FreeBSD (and BSD) communities as one excellent way of integrating third party applications into a Unix-based operating system. It goes somewhat beyond a packaging system (such as RedHat's RPM) and encompasses all levels of a user's normal interaction with a package to get it up and running - from download through patching, compilation and installation. The closest equivalent in the Linux world is (I believe) Debian's apt-get system.''

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UPDATE: The full text of the post can be found in the BiO BB archives:
http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bio_bulletin_board/2001-March/000027.html

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Submitted by Johann Visagie; posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2001

The URL of this forum must've been passed around, since I've had a few queries about the content of my original posting. For those interested, the full posting is available in the Bio Bulletin Board archives: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bio_bulletin_board/2001-March/000027.html

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Submitted by Johann Visagie; posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Apple/BSD as an alternative

Submitted by Nobody; posted on Monday, May 20, 2002

http://www.apple.com/xserve/ http://www.apple.com/scitech/stories/osxporting/ Worth a look...