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. ...