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51     <li><a href="/index.html" title="Home">Home</a></li>
52     <li><a href="/about/index.html" title="About">About</a></li>
53     <li><a href="/download/index.html" title="Get MidnightBSD">Get MidnightBSD</a></li>
54     <li><a href="/docs/index.html" title="Documentation">Documentation</a></li>
55     <li><a href="/community/index.html" title="Community">Community</a></li>
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68     <a href="http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd/rss">Developer Blog</a></p>
69 laffer1 31
70     </p>
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72    
73     <h2>Introduction</h2>
74    
75 laffer1 96 <p style="text-indent: 3em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 20px;">MidnightBSD
76     is a desktop operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium&reg; and Athlon&#8482;),
77     and soon amd64 compatible (including Opteron&#8482;, Athlon&#8482;64, and EM64T)
78     architectures. It was originally based on <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>
79     6.1 Beta. The goal of the project is to create a BSD with ease of use and simplicity in mind.</p>
80 laffer1 2
81 laffer1 62 <h3>MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE</h3>
82    
83     <p>
84     <strong>August 6, 2007</strong>
85     MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE is now available. It includes several software packages
86     such as ksh, sudo, OpenNTPD, gcc 3.4.4, BIND 9.3.4 (plus patch) and others in
87     the base system. Disc 1 ISO includes the entire Operating System and X11 (xorg 6.9)
88     packages. Disc 2 ISO includes a selection of additional packages such as
89     GNUstep, bash 3, zsh, and cups-base. There are additional packages on our FTP
90     server. More will be added in a few days. Only disc 1 is required for installation.
91     This release is intended for enthusiests, developers and people interested in
92     new operating systems that can handle bugs. The core OS is stable, but many
93     elements such as ports are in flux.
94     </p>
95    
96     <p>Get 0.1: <a href="http://cs.emich.edu/mbsd/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/ ">Mirror 1</a>
97     <a href="ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1">Mirror 2</a>
98     <a href="http://www.midnightbsd.org/ftp/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/">Official
99     site (slow)</a></p>
100    
101     <h4>0.1-RELEASE Errata</h4>
102     <pre>
103     Installation issues
104    
105     projectcenter.app package is missing dependancies on disc2.
106     mutt package is missing urlview dependancy on disc2.
107    
108     GNUstep package includes gdnc which is missing libgcc_s.so.1.
109    
110     bash 3 and gmake missing libintl.so.6. This can be fixed by uninstalling gettext
111     and building it from the port. A new package was placed on the FTP server.
112    
113     System issues
114    
115 laffer1 63 CVSUP example for updating src fetches CURRENT instead of RELENG_0_1
116 laffer1 62
117 laffer1 63 The new mports system was not included in the RELEASE. Many ports work in
118     mports that do not work in the old system. It is suggested that you update
119     your source using RELENG_0_1 and download the latest mports using CVS or CVSup.
120    
121 laffer1 62 Using Virtual PC for Windows:
122     If you install MidnightBSD in VPC, you will need to set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
123 laffer1 69 in /boot/device.hints This will help with the "calcru: negative runtime of" issue.
124    
125     August 11, 2007:
126     The pkg_install tools found in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install were not updated for
127     mports. This has been corrected. You should be able to cvs update that directory
128     and run make install and get the new versions of pkg_add, pkg_delete, and so on.
129 laffer1 62 </pre>
130    
131 laffer1 38 <table>
132     <caption><span style="color: #333; text-decoration: underline;">MidnightBSD in action</span></caption>
133     <tbody>
134     <tr>
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141 laffer1 38 </tr>
142     </tbody>
143     </table>
144    
145 laffer1 68 <p><a href="http://cs.emich.edu/mbsd/videos/demo1.mov">Watch</a> demo movie in QuickTime format.</p>
146 laffer1 39
147 laffer1 77 <p>Installing MidnightBSD videos:
148 laffer1 78 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3504097528804636404">Video 1</a>
149     <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1327567970434212474">Video 2</a>
150 laffer1 77 or
151 laffer1 68 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1215820984218210282&q=MidnightBSD&pr=goog-sl">part 1</a>
152     <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6978382486264269794&pr=goog-sl">part 2</a>
153     <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6990322451567856326&pr=goog-sl">part 3</a>
154     <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1079107845259123061&pr=goog-sl">part 4</a>
155     <br /> All of the install videos are on Google Video and the various MidnightBSD FTP mirrors.
156     </p>
157 laffer1 42
158 laffer1 38 <p><span style="text-align: center;">
159     <a href="download/index.html"><img src="images/dvd.png" alt="Download" style="float: left;" /></a><br />
160     <a href="download/index.html">Download</a>
161 laffer1 2 MidnightBSD
162 laffer1 38 </span></p>
163 laffer1 2
164     <p><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/midnightbsd">Purchase</a> MidnightBSD merchandise to support the project.</p>
165    
166     <p>Track development and changes to MidnightBSD with our <a href="http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd">development blog</a>. </p>
167    
168 laffer1 43 <p>View recent <a href="http://cia.vc/stats/project/midnightbsd">CVS activity</a> through a friendly web interface. (commit logs)</p>
169    
170 laffer1 2 <p>We now have a <a href="http://forums.midnightbsd.org/">Forum</a>. You can also chat with us via IRC on FreeNode #midnightbsd.</p>
171    
172     <p><a href="http://bugreport.midnightbsd.org/">View/Report</a> Bugs.</p>
173    
174 laffer1 5 <p>View our <a href="mports/README.html">ports</a> with descriptions.</p>
175    
176 laffer1 57 <p>Subscribe to our <a href="/mailman/listinfo">mailing lists.</a></p>
177    
178 laffer1 2 <table>
179     <thead>
180     <tr>
181     <th>Getting Source</th>
182     </tr>
183     </thead>
184    
185     <tbody>
186     <tr>
187     <td><a href="cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi" title="View the CVS Repository on the web">CVSWeb</a></td>
188     </tr>
189    
190     <tr>
191     <td><a href="developer/cvsup.html" title="Download source or mports">CVSup</a></td>
192     </tr>
193     </tbody>
194     </table>
195    
196 laffer1 5 <h3>Security</h3>
197 laffer1 2
198 laffer1 57 <p>August 1, 2007<br />
199     BIND and Tcpdump were patched in 0.2 and 0.1 for recent security issues. BIND is now equivalent to 9.3.4p1.
200     </p>
201    
202 laffer1 5 <p>May 2, 2007<br />
203 laffer1 10 CURRENT and STABLE both have the patch for ipv6 type 0 routing headers. The problem is that ipv6 routing headers could be run over the same link multiple times.
204 laffer1 5 </p>
205     <p>March 10, 2007<br />
206     While many of the DST changes were imported last year, we decided to cover all cases and import
207     the latest tzdata2007c. Users concerned about DST changes should update their sources
208     and rebuild. The java ports may not have DST changes in place. We will review that issue.
209     </p>
210     <p>Jaunary 23, 2007<br />
211 laffer1 57 A &quot;symlink&quot; exploit was found in the MidnightBSD jail system. A fix was made available. Please
212 laffer1 5 update your /etc/rc.d/jail file from cvs. Patches will not be created until our first release.
213     </p>
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