BSD

Tips and tricks for users of the BSDs (Note, Mac users, are you looking for Mac OS X tips?)

FreeBSD

Support for FreeBSD has been discontinued since version 9.6 of GHC.

OpenBSD

There are ports and packages:

• lang/ghc, package name ghc-7.10.3
• meta/haskell-platform, package name haskell-platform-7.10.3
• and many more

Specific tools:

• cpuperf toggles the CPU frequency, see dons blog for an in-depth explanation, "Practical Haskell: shell scripting with error handling and privilege separation"

NetBSD, DragonFly BSD (and others using pkgsrc)

There are ports in pkgsrc:

• lang/ghc, version 6.8.3 and wip/ghc, version 7.4.1 (using binary bootstrap kits)
• and many more

Miscellaneous BSD-specific packages

• bsd-sysctl provides access to the BSD sysctl(3) interface

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