FreeBSD (and BSDs in general) traditionally have source-based upgrades and installs which extends to the third party software collections - ports or pkgsrc and similar. This is all fine and offers unprecedended flexibility when tailoring system to specific needs, but sometimes this flexibility is less important than ease of use or time savings which can only be achieved with binary packages. Enter pkgng, the next-generation binary package management system by Baptiste Daroussin and others, which replaces the old-style ports and packages system.