The main reason I got into the BSDs years ago was because of the ports system. I remember having a fun time with dependency hell that was on all Linux distribut

The main reason I got into the BSDs years ago was because of the ports system. I remember having a fun time with dependency hell that was on all Linux distributions. Then a friend showed me OpenBSD and did a "make install clean" from the ports tree, downloading all dependencies and installing them too. I was hooked. Linux distributions eventually caught up and made software easier to install, but I've stuck with the BSDs.