Other FreeBSD as a Reverse Engineering Platform

Lately I've been using FreeBSD more and more as my primary desktop operating system, and I've been pleasantly surprised by how well it works not only for software development but also for reverse engineering.
The FreeBSD Ports Collection already includes many useful tools such as Ghidra, Cutter, Rizin, radare2, YARA, YARA-X, capa, binwalk, and many others. In addition, a number of projects can be built from source and, if useful, packaged as FreeBSD ports.

Recently I managed to build Detect It Easy (DIE), and I'm now considering creating a FreeBSD port for it. I'm curious if there are other people here who use FreeBSD for reverse engineering. It would be great if we could work together to:
  1. Create a list of reverse engineering tools available on FreeBSD.
  2. Share our experience using these tools.
  3. Port additional reverse engineering software that is not yet available in the Ports Collection, whenever possible, to make FreeBSD an even better platform for binary analysis, firmware research, and reverse engineering.
Perhaps some of you are already using tools that are not widely known or have your own workflows and recommendations. I'd be very interested to hear about them. Hopefully, over time we can build a comprehensive list of reverse engineering tools for FreeBSD and contribute new ports to the Ports Collection.
 

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