<xref linkend="fig-ports"/> is taken from <link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/ports/growth/status.png"> the FreeBSD web site</link>. It shows the number of ports available to FreeBSD in the period 1995 to 20058. It looks like the curve has first grown exponentionally, and then sincefrom the middle of 2001 to the middle of 20017 grown linearly at a rate of about 2000 ports/year, before its growth rate gets lower.
is taken from <link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/ports/growth/status.png"> the FreeBSD web site</link>. Itshows the number of ports available to FreeBSD in the period 1995 to 20058. It looks like the curve has first grown exponentionally, and thensincefrom the middle of 2001 to the middle of 20017 grown linearly at a rate of about 2000 ports/year, before its growth rate gets lower.