release of a desktop-oriented operating system , based on FreeBSD with elements ported from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. The base desktop environment is built on GNUstep, but users have the option to install WindowMaker, GNOME, Xfce, or Lumina. For download, a 663 MB installation image (, ).
Unlike other desktop builds of FreeBSD, MidnightBSD was originally developed as a fork of FreeBSD 6.1-beta, which was synchronized with the FreeBSD 7 codebase in 2011, and subsequently incorporated many features from FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-STABLE. MidnightBSD uses the mport system for package management, which utilizes an SQLite database to store indexes and metadata. Installation, removal, and searching for packages is done with a single command .
The new release focuses on updating core system libraries and addressing security issues. The base system also includes the utility for updating ports (portsnap fetch extract; portsnap fetch update). The maintenance of the ports collection has transitioned to and the capability to use Git for fetching updated ports has been implemented (‘cd /usr/ && git clone https://github.com/midnightbsd/mports.git’). Versions of OpenSSH 7.9p1 and bzip2 1.0.7 have been updated.
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