Stable ports of the most common libraries and applications. Older versions of most of these have previously been ported to BeOS. Hence, it's a good idea to hunt down the patches and use those as a starting point.

The preliminary list is as follows:

• app-arch/tar
• app-arch/gzip
• app-arch/bzip2
• app-arch/sharutils
• app-shells/bash
• dev-lang/perl
• dev-lang/python
• dev-libs/apr
• dev-libs/apr-util
• dev-libs/expat
• dev-libs/glib
• dev-libs/libiconv
• dev-libs/openssl
• dev-util/subversion
• media-libs/freetype
• media-libs/jbigkit
• media-libs/jpeg
• media-libs/libpng
• media-libs/libsdl
• media-libs/sdl-image
• media-libs/tiff
• net-misc/openssh
• sys-apps/coreutils
• sys-apps/diffutils
• sys-apps/findutils
• sys-apps/gawk
• sys-apps/grep
• sys-apps/less
• sys-apps/sed
• sys-devel/autoconf
• sys-devel/automake
• sys-devel/bison
• sys-devel/flex
• sys-devel/gettext
• sys-devel/libtool
• sys-devel/m4
• sys-devel/make
• sys-devel/patch
• sys-libs/ncurses
• sys-libs/readline
• sys-libs/zlib

Also, beporter should have reached version 1.0