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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by kryptiskt on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:57PM (#18658785)
FreeBSD has the pkg package manager. There is also a ports system if you want to build from source.

There's no shortage of info or places to seek help about BSDs on the net, FreeBSD has an active forum at https://forums.freebsd.org

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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by trasz on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:04PM (#18658864)
Note that those two are not really disjoint - packages are built from ports; ports are a bit like source packages in the Linux world.
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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available by floatboth on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:47PM (#18659241)
deb/rpm source packages are a bit weird.

AUR and Gentoo Portage are very closely inspired by Ports though.

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