The FreeBSD ports collection continues to grow - there are now 1687 ports in the collection. There's been some restructuring in the ports tree in an attempt to make things easier to find. One of the big challenges for this release is the conversion to ELF from a.out. In particular, the conversion of the ports from a.out to ELF is being worked on diligently.
New platforms NetBSD continues to be ported to new platforms.
It is still only running on the SBUS-based Ultra1 and Ultra2 models, but progress is continuing. Finally proving you can have one of the nicest looking Unix machines around without having to run NeXTstep for the privilege, Darrin Jewell's next68k port can now netboot and run via a serial console well enough to compile itself. For a company that was supposed to be open, it appears that NeXT out-shines even Apple when it comes to keeping hardware documentation out of the hands of those who could use it. It contains full source and binaries for thirteen platforms, as well as package source. It is an essential companion for those without fast Internet connections.