Editing MirOS BSD (section)

== MirPorts ==
''MirPorts'' was a derivative of the OpenBSD ports tree and was developed by Benny Siegert. MirPorts does not use the package tools from OpenBSD written in [[Perl]], but continues to maintain the previous [[C (programming language)|C]]-based tools. New features are in-place package upgrades and installing a MirPorts instance as a non-root user. Unlike OpenBSD ports, MirPorts are not tied to specific OS versions and even on stable releases using the newest version was recommended. ''MirLibtool'' was a modified version of GNU libtool 1.5 installed by MirPorts to build shared libraries in a portable way.

Multiple platforms are supported "out of the box":

* MirOS BSD (-stable and -current)
* OpenBSD (-stable and -current)
* MidnightBSD
* [[Mac OS X]] (10.4 and newer) / [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]]

Following the MirOS BSD policy of faster software availability to the user, many ports removed for [[OpenBSD#Open source and open documentation|political reasons]] in OpenBSD (e.g. all the DJB software or the [[Flash Plugin]]) have been kept in MirPorts and can continue to be used. MirPorts was intended to be a place for unofficial or rejected OpenBSD ports.