From hack3rcon at yahoo.com Tue Feb 13 18:19:36 2024 From: hack3rcon at yahoo.com (Jason Long) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD vs GhostBSD References: <518997257.1145761.1707866376465.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <518997257.1145761.1707866376465@mail.yahoo.com> Hello,I have two questions:1- I want to know what is the advantage of MidnightBSD compared to GhostBSD? 2- Can MidnightBSD provide all the features of FreeBSD? For example, can it be used as a server? Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.midnightbsd.org/pipermail/midnightbsd-users/attachments/20240213/b0c9f95c/attachment.htm> From luke at foolishgames.com Tue Feb 13 19:32:38 2024 From: luke at foolishgames.com (Lucas Holt) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:32:38 -0500 Subject: [Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD vs GhostBSD In-Reply-To: <518997257.1145761.1707866376465@mail.yahoo.com> References: <518997257.1145761.1707866376465.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <518997257.1145761.1707866376465@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <adc7c61a-fef3-49bc-b7b2-f3debba568c2@foolishgames.com> On 2/13/24 6:19 PM, Jason Long wrote: > Hello, > I have two questions: > 1- I want to know what is the advantage of MidnightBSD compared to > GhostBSD? > > 2- Can MidnightBSD provide all the features of FreeBSD? For example, > can it be used as a server? > MidnightBSD is a bit different than GhostBSD in how we manage the project, and how the OS is built.? With both use code from FreeBSD, but in different ways.? Many of the FreeBSD features are available in both operating systems.? However, GhostBSD is primarily a bunch of scripts and custom installer to create a distro of FreeBSD with a desktop environment.? It's a bit easier to install and setup than MidnightBSD currently.?? With MidnightBSD, we've customized the OS from the kernel and userland on up.? There are areas we haven't finished to our satisfaction yet, particularly installation and updates.?? Many defaults are more desktop friendly though.? We also have a number of additions to the base system to make life easier such as a mksh, mined, spell(1), batt(1), mDNSresponder, ipfw with firewall enabled by default, and handle the desktop install phase after the initial boot.? We have our own package manager, graphical package manager app, security tools, etc. MidnightBSD can be used as a server and we do use it that way. The project actually runs on a mix of MidnightBSD and FreeBSD based servers.?? Most of the core infrastructure is running on MidnightBSD including sendmail, dns, bind, apache, dovecot, rsync, php, python, perl, this mailing list, jenkins, postgresql, mysql, redis, etc.?? We have a mix of bare metal and VMs. We use FreeBSD for bhyve VMs, however, MidnightBSD does have an older version of bhyve included so it's possible to run VMs of MidnightBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. MidnightBSD also has 2 different ports collections / packages available: mports (from our project) and Ravenports.? You can download and install packages from either and mix and match. -- Lucas Holt Luke at FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ MidnightBSD.org (Free OS) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) From hack3rcon at yahoo.com Thu Feb 15 16:10:40 2024 From: hack3rcon at yahoo.com (Jason Long) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD and web server References: <382727522.1646672.1708031440015.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <382727522.1646672.1708031440015@mail.yahoo.com> Hello,Can MidnightBSD act as a server operating system like FreeBSD? Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.midnightbsd.org/pipermail/midnightbsd-users/attachments/20240215/bf899d75/attachment.htm> From luke at foolishgames.com Thu Feb 15 16:15:51 2024 From: luke at foolishgames.com (Lucas Holt) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:15:51 -0500 Subject: [Midnightbsd-users] MidnightBSD and web server In-Reply-To: <382727522.1646672.1708031440015@mail.yahoo.com> References: <382727522.1646672.1708031440015.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <382727522.1646672.1708031440015@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <76ef402f-2e8f-43dd-982f-3f0b5a7f566d@foolishgames.com> On 2/15/24 4:10 PM, Jason Long wrote: > Hello, > Can MidnightBSD act as a server operating system like FreeBSD? > > Thank you. > Yes. You can run Apache, nginx, mysql, postgresql, mongodb, redis, samba, nfs, tomcat, rabbitmq, php, python, perl, etc. -- Lucas Holt Luke at FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ MidnightBSD.org (Free OS) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)