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<div id="header"><h1 title="MidnightBSD Home"><a href="../" title="MidnightBSD Home">MidnightBSD: The BSD For Everyone</a></h1></div> |
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<h2 class="icon"><img src="../images/oxygen/developer32.png" alt="" /> Welcome to MidnightBSD Development</h2> |
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<h4>Update: (May 2009)</h4> |
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<blockquote> |
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<p>ctriv@ has been testing libmport and the mport tools for the 0.3 release. We're currently working on |
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importing GCC 4.2.1 into src. We now use bsdcpio and bsdtar, sudo 1.6.9p20, OpenSSH 5.2, OpenSSL .98, |
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ZFS version 6, gjournal, pcc .99, Perl 5.10</p> |
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<p>With mports, we now have KDE 3.5.10 (still in progress for some parts), X.org 7.4, Gnome 2.20, |
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GNUstep is working again, Etoile 0.2 (although this needs to be updated), unbranded F* browser as www/browser, |
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Midori + webkit.</p> |
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<h4>Update: (October 2007)</h4> |
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<blockquote> |
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<p>Seirei@ has imported Etoile 0.2 into our mports collection. |
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You can test the window manager and many other features. We also offer KDE 3.5.4 and WindowMaker among other environments. |
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About half of Gnome is in as well. We still plan to focus on GNUstep + Etoile.</p> |
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<p>0.1 Release shipped with WindowMaker and KDE on the CD as well as GNUstep. The |
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installer did not automatically install the ports though. 0.1.1 Release will fix some bugs with the |
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packages as well as enable "mports" by default. Work has begun on bringing X.org 7.3 |
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into the tree, although 0.1.1 will continue to use 6.9.</p> |
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<h4>Update: (March 2007)</h4> |
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<p>We are planning on using WindowMaker until the Etoile Project is |
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farther along with their work. Etoile is in mports as are many other GNUstep based software packages.</p> |
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<p>If you are interested in joining the MidnightBSD project, please contact |
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<a href="mailto:questions@midnightbsd.org">questions@midnightbsd.org |
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</a>. We are looking for programmers with all types of skills, port maintainers, |
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documentation and website maintainers, and people interested in mirroring. |
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<h3>Developer Resources</h3> |
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<p>The CVS server for MidnightBSD is <span class="highlight">stargazer.midnightbsd.org</span>. |
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This is where you can do your checkouts, commits, etc. To checkout anonymously, use |
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<span class="highlight">anoncvs</span> (with password <span class="highlight">anoncvs</span>):</p> |
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cvs -z7 -d <span class="highlight">anoncvs</span>@stargazer.midnightbsd.org:/home/cvs co src<br /> |
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anoncvs@stargazer.midnightbsd.org's password:<br /> |
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cvs checkout: Updating src<br /> |
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U src/COPYRIGHT<br /> |
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U src/MAINTAINERS<br /> |
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...<br /> |
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Or to checkout as a MidnightBSD developer with your username and password:<br /> |
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cvs -z7 -d <span class="highlight">username</span>@stargazer.midnightbsd.org:/home/cvs co src<br /> |
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<span class="highlight">username</span>@stargazer.midnightbsd.org's password:<br /> |
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cvs checkout: Updating src<br /> |
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U src/COPYRIGHT<br /> |
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U src/MAINTAINERS<br /> |
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<h3>Background</h3> |
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<p>MidnightBSD is based on FreeBSD 6.1 pre-release. The goal of the project is to create a BSD with ease of use and simplicity in mind.</p> |
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<h3>Goals</h3> |
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<li>Create an easy to use desktop environment with basic functionality and a full graphical administration interface.</li> |
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<li>Create a unique window manager designed with ease of use in mind. We will not use full blown desktop environments like KDE or Gnome.</li> |
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<li>Integrate GNUstep into the system, but maintain BSD licensing on our own code whenever possible. The kernel and most userland software must be BSD licensed.</li> |
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<li>Incorperate new technologies from other BSD projects that may interest desktop users. OpenBSD's OpenNTPD, OpenSSH, and wireless drivers are examples.</li> |
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<li>Create our own ports system based on FreeBSD's ports. The system would have a graphical interface and existing utilities would be merged into a library so identical functionality is maintained on the gui and command line.</li> |
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<li>Setup a binary update system so that users do no need to compile patches or new releases to get security updates or bug fixes.</li> |
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<li>Listen to user feedback to improve the system. At times, many open source projects fail to listen to users making systems more difficult to use and decreasing scope.</li> |
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<p>Initially for 1.0 release, I'd like to have a new installer (wheither it be DragonFlyBSD's or a new one) along with a basic graphical environment. WindowMaker, Firefox, Thunderbird, and a few other applications. From there, based on user feedback, I'd like to build on the solid base of FreeBSD.</p> |
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<p>To clarify, this is a fork of FreeBSD. I'm not creating a distro<span class="ast">*</span> like DesktopBSD or PC-BSD.</p> |
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<p class="devnote"><span class="devasterisk">*</span> distro is often used in the Linux community. Some BSD folks hate that term applied to other projects. My working definition is a system with core componets (kernel, large parts of userland) that are not developed by the entity releasing the operating environment. It is a collection of software grouped together possibly with an installer. This can be applied to Live CD projects, BSD firewall projects, PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, and non BSD projects like Fedora, Gentoo, and so on.</p> |
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