Chapter 1 Introduction
The FreeBSD ports collection is the way almost everyone installs applications
("ports") on FreeBSD. Like everything else about FreeBSD, it is primarily a volunteer
effort. It is important to keep this in mind when reading this document.
In FreeBSD, anyone may submit a new port, or volunteer to maintain an existing port if
it is unmaintained--you do not need any special commit privileges to do so.
