MidnightBSD
Sign in to saveMidnightBSD is a formerly free Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later FreeBSD releases. Its default desktop environment, Xfce, is a lightweight user friendly desktop experience.
Key facts
- OS.name
- MidnightBSD
- OS.title
- MidnightBSD
- OS.logo
- 120px|MidnightBSD Logo
- OS.screenshot
- 200px|MidnightBSD 2.0 with Xfce
- OS.caption
- MidnightBSD 2.0
- OS.developer
- The MidnightBSD project
- OS.family
- FreeBSD
- OS.source model
- Source-available
- OS.working state
- Current
- OS.released
- 0.1 /
- OS.marketing target
- PC, Workstations, Servers
- OS.programmed in
- C
- OS.package manager
- MidnightBSD mports/Packages
- OS.supported_platforms
- x86-64 and IA-32
- OS.kernel type
- Monolithic kernel
- OS.userland
- FreeBSD
- OS.ui
- Xfce
- OS.license
- Modified FreeBSD license, Proprietary
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MidnightBSD is a formerly free Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later FreeBSD releases. Its default desktop environment, Xfce, is a lightweight user friendly desktop experience.
== History and development == MidnightBSD began as a fork from FreeBSD in 2005. The founder of the project, Lucas Holt, wished to create a BSD derived desktop operating system. He was familiar with several live CD projects, but not the work on TrueOS or DesktopBSD. At the same time, he also had an interest in GNUstep. The two ideas were folded into a plan to create a user friendly desktop environment. MidnightBSD 0.1 was released based on the efforts of Lucas Holt, Caryn Holt, D. Adam Karim, Phil Pereira of bsdnexus, and Christian Reinhardt. This release features a modified version of the FreeBSD ports system. The ports system evolved into "mports" which includes fake support, generation of packages before installation, license tagging, and strict rules about package list generation and modification of files outside the destination. Many of these features were introduced in MidnightBSD 0.1.1.