Welcome to MidnightBSD

MidnightBSD is a 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, 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 (x86_64) and as Virtual Machines.

Latest Release - 4.0.8 (September 28, 2026)

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Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:44

There are now some riscv snaps. Similar to arm but much more likely to have serious issues....

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Wed, 11 Nov 2026 23:19

We are uploading some experimental snapshots of 4.2 current for aarch64 (arm64). Caveats: firstboot

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Tue, 10 Nov 2026 23:08

Claude got dumber in the name of security and now needs some hacks to work under linux emulation on

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Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:38

We have the mediatek mt79250 working on current. It will connect at 802.11ac but seems to be hard ca

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