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 top of GNUstep, but users have the option of installing WindowMaker, GNOME, Xfce or Lumina. For loading installation image size 663 MB (, ).
Unlike other FreeBSD desktop builds, MidnightBSD was originally developed as a fork of FreeBSD 6.1-beta, which was synchronized with the FreeBSD 2011 codebase in 7, and subsequently absorbed many of the features of FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-STABLE. To manage packages, MidnightBSD uses the mport system, which uses a SQLite database to store indexes and metadata. Installing, uninstalling and searching for packages is carried out using a single command .
The new release focuses on updating core system libraries and addressing security issues. Also included in the base system was a utility to update ports (portsnap fetch extract; portsnap fetch update). Maintenance of the port collection has been translated to and implemented the ability to use Git to retrieve updated ports (“cd /usr/ && git clone https://github.com/midnightbsd/mports.git”). Updated versions of OpenSSH 7.9p1 and bzip2 1.0.7.
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