MidnightBSD
| MidnightBSD | |
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 MidnightBSD 0.1 |
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| developer | The MidnightBSD Project |
| License (s) | BSD license and others |
| First publ. | August 6, 2007 |
| Current version |
1.1 of February 2, 2019 (one year and 212 days ago) |
| Kernel | monolithic |
| ancestry |
UNIX → BSD ↳ FreeBSD ↳ MidnightBSD |
| Architecture (s) | IA-32 , AMD64 |
| Others | uses a GNUstep -based desktop environment |
| MidnightBSD.org | |
MidnightBSD is a FreeBSD- derived free operating system from the Unix-like family . Its specialty is the GNUstep -based desktop environment , which is reminiscent of the look and feel of NeXTStep .
History and Development
MidnightBSD began in 2005 as a fork of the FreeBSD 6.1 Beta.
The founder of the project, Lucas Holt, wanted to create a desktop operating system derived from BSD . He was familiar with several Live CD projects but not working on PC-BSD or DesktopBSD . At the same time he also had an interest in GNUstep . He combined the two interests to create a user-friendly desktop environment. MidnightBSD was named after Lucas and Caryn Holt's first cat. The tomcat Midnight (midnight) was a black Turkish angora .
MidnightBSD 0.1 has been released based on the efforts of Lucas Holt, Caryn Holt, D. Adam Karim, Phil Pereira from bsdnexus, and Christian Reinhardt. This release contains a modified version of FreeBSD's ports system.
Christian Reinhardt replaced Phil Pereira as the primary "Imports" supervisor before MidnightBSD 0.1 was released. D. Adam Karim acted as safety officer for the first publication. The release engineering is handled by Lucas Holt.
Version 0.2 got a refined mports system and already contained over 2000 packages. The Portable C Compiler was added to the i386 alongside the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Other changes include the default activation of ipfw and sound card recognition at startup, newer versions of many software packages including Bind, GCC, OpenSSH and Sendmail, and a live CD.
Version 0.3 has some improvements from FreeBSD 7.0 and DragonFlyBSD .
With version 1.0, support for Ryzen hardware was introduced. It is also possible for the first time to boot MidnightBSD from a ZFS file system .
Version 1.1 fixes bugs that emerged after 1.0 was released.
Licenses
Most of MidnightBSD's components, the kernel code, and most of the newly created code are under the BSD license . Some software packages, such as X.Org , GCC and GNUstep, are subject to other licenses such as the GPL , LGPL , ISC and Beerware license.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MidnightBSD 1.1 Release Notes . February 2, 2019 (accessed February 6, 2019).
- ↑ MidnightBSD 1.1 released . February 5, 2019 (accessed February 6, 2019).
- ↑ heise online: MidnightBSD 1.0: Unix for the desktop. Retrieved on October 20, 2018 (German).