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Beyond make install: Why I Love FreeBSD Ports (And Why We Need Native OCI)

There is a distinct, visceral satisfaction in typing make config && make install clean. If you’ve spent any meaningful amount of time in the Unix world, you know exactly what I mean. The FreeBSD Ports tree is an ethos—a commitment to understanding exactly what is running on your metal. But let’s be honest: while Ports are a masterpiece for traditional software, they hit a brick wall with modern, cloud-native applications. I’ve been running into this wall a lot lately while building daemonless.io—a project dedicated to bringing first-class, native OCI images to FreeBSD.

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Michael Johnson (ahze.net)

I've actually been sitting on this blog draft since January, but after getting a well-timed poke in Discord to just publish it already, I finally hit the button.

I wrote down some thoughts on the Ports tree—which I still have a ton of love for from my committer days -- and the reality of deploying massive modern apps (like Immich) natively. I really think we need a solid path forward with native OCI, without just falling back to Linux VMs.

It's the main reason I've been hacking on http://daemonless.io -- I'd love to hear what other folks in the community think!

http://ahze.net/posts/why-i-love-freebsd-ports/

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b8018a33-32f0-4fbe-81e2-51ac9ca48cdc/hey-everyone-first-post-here-on-bsd.cafeRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 06:33:33 GMTWed, 01 Apr 2026 20:46:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hey everyone, first post here on bsd.cafe! on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:07:01 GMT]]>@ahze interesting post, so far I've been able to manage my web apps with jails, but I can see how this'd be useful. Welcome to the café and have fun!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/ap/users/115966773953607458/statuses/116333610399395191https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/ap/users/115966773953607458/statuses/116333610399395191Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:07:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hey everyone, first post here on bsd.cafe! on Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:00:50 GMT]]>@ahze Welcome aboard!
I am sure you will find this instance nice and helpful. The community is incredible.
Take a seat and have fun

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/alelab/statuses/116333586070775202https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/alelab/statuses/116333586070775202Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:00:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hey everyone, first post here on bsd.cafe! on Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:04:08 GMT]]>@ahze Welcome and have fun!

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