Welcome to MidnightBSD

MidnightBSD is a new BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, web hosting, word processing, gaming, and much more.

With a small community of dedicated developers, MidnightBSD strives to create an easy-to-use operating system everyone can use, freely. Available for x86, AMD64, SPARC64, and as Virtual Machines.

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Latest Release - 0.3

Release Notes

News »

Thu, 03 May 2012 18:32

Several security issues have been addressed in OpenSSL in the latest security update for MidnightBSD

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Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:22

I've created some basic ZFS documentation on the website.  This is in addition to some content on

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Security »

December 23, 2011

Multiple security vulnerabilities impacting 0.3-RELEASE and 0.4-CURRENT have been patched in MidnightBSD.

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November 4, 2011

MidnightBSD 0.3-RELEASE-p4
Fix a problem with unix socket handling caused by the recent patch to unix socket path handling. This allows network apps to work under the linuxolator again.

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