BSD
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Tips and tricks for users of the BSDs (Note, Mac users, are you looking for Mac OS X tips?)
FreeBSD
There are ports and packages:
- lang/ghc, package name ghc, version 7.0.4;
- devel/hs-haskell-platform, package name hs-haskell-platform, version 2011.4.0.0;
- and many more
More information in the FreeBSD Wiki's Haskell page
There are specific libraries and programs for handling your FreeBSD Ports:
- porte (ports-mgmt/porte) provides an interface to searching ports index fields and collecting frequency statistics for these;
- newports lists ports newer than N days.
OpenBSD
There are ports and packages:
- lang/ghc, package name ghc-7.0.4,
- meta/haskell-platform, package name haskell-platform-2011.4.0.0,
- 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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