That depends on the BSD. FreeBSD does have binary repositories and a pretty decent package manager (pkgng). PC-BSD is basically a distro of FreeBSD, so would al

That depends on the BSD. FreeBSD does have binary repositories and a pretty decent package manager (pkgng). PC-BSD is basically a distro of FreeBSD, so would also have the same; as does DragonflyBSD, which is a much older fork but these days a standalone BSD in it's own right. NetBSD still uses pkgsrc which does support binary packages but the command line tools are a little less intuitive in my opinion. Incidentally, a few other UNIXes also support pkgsrc. You may already be aware of this, but it's worth noting that the different BSD's are more like separate OS's, rather than distributions of the same OS like you see with Linux. eg DragonflyBSD, despite being a fork of FreeBSD, has some quite significant kernel changes (different schedulers, file systems, etc). And it's a similar story with NetBSD and OpenBSD too - though they're forked from other, much older, BSDs.