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6 <title>MidnightBSD Project</title>
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47 <li><a href="/index.html" title="Home">Home</a></li>
48 <li><a href="/about/index.html" title="About">About</a></li>
49 <li><a href="/download/index.html" title="Get MidnightBSD">Get MidnightBSD</a></li>
50 <li><a href="/docs/index.html" title="Documentation">Documentation</a></li>
51
52 <li><a href="/community/index.html" title="Community">Community</a></li>
53 <li><a href="/developer/index.html" title="Developers">Developers</a></li>
54 <li><a href="/support/index.html" title="Support">Support</a></li>
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57 <p>
58 <a href="/de/index.html" title="German">DE</a>
59 <a href="/index.html" title="English">EN</a>
60 <a href="/ru/index.html" title="Russian">RU</a>
61 </p>
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63 <p style="border-top: thin dashed silver; padding-top: 10px;"><img src="images/feed.gif" alt="RSS Feed" />
64 <a href="http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd/rss">Developer Blog</a></p>
65
66 </p>
67 </div>
68
69 <h2>Introduction</h2>
70
71 <p style="text-indent: 3em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 20px;">MidnightBSD
72 is a desktop operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium&reg; and Athlon&#8482;),
73 and soon amd64 compatible (including Opteron&#8482;, Athlon&#8482;64, and EM64T)
74 architectures. It was originally based on <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>
75 6.1 Beta. The goal of the project is to create a BSD with ease of use and simplicity in mind.</p>
76
77 <h3>MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE</h3>
78
79 <p>
80 <strong>August 6, 2007</strong>
81 MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE is now available. It includes several software packages
82 such as ksh, sudo, OpenNTPD, gcc 3.4.4, BIND 9.3.4 (plus patch) and others in
83 the base system. Disc 1 ISO includes the entire Operating System and X11 (xorg 6.9)
84 packages. Disc 2 ISO includes a selection of additional packages such as
85 GNUstep, bash 3, zsh, and cups-base. There are additional packages on our FTP
86 server. More will be added in a few days. Only disc 1 is required for installation.
87 This release is intended for enthusiests, developers and people interested in
88 new operating systems that can handle bugs. The core OS is stable, but many
89 elements such as ports are in flux.
90 </p>
91
92 <p>Get 0.1: <a href="http://cs.emich.edu/mbsd/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/ ">Mirror 1</a>
93 <a href="ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1">Mirror 2</a>
94 <a href="http://www.midnightbsd.org/ftp/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/">Official
95 site (slow)</a></p>
96
97 <h4>0.1-RELEASE Errata</h4>
98 <pre>
99 Installation issues
100
101 projectcenter.app package is missing dependancies on disc2.
102 mutt package is missing urlview dependancy on disc2.
103
104 GNUstep package includes gdnc which is missing libgcc_s.so.1.
105
106 bash 3 and gmake missing libintl.so.6. This can be fixed by uninstalling gettext
107 and building it from the port. A new package was placed on the FTP server.
108
109 System issues
110
111 CVSUP example for updating src fetches CURRENT instead of RELENG_0_1
112
113 The new mports system was not included in the RELEASE. Many ports work in
114 mports that do not work in the old system. It is suggested that you update
115 your source using RELENG_0_1 and download the latest mports using CVS or CVSup.
116
117 Using Virtual PC for Windows:
118 If you install MidnightBSD in VPC, you will need to set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
119 in /boot/device.hints This will help with the "calcru: negative runtime of" issue.
120
121 August 11, 2007:
122 The pkg_install tools found in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install were not updated for
123 mports. This has been corrected. You should be able to cvs update that directory
124 and run make install and get the new versions of pkg_add, pkg_delete, and so on.
125 </pre>
126
127 <table>
128 <caption><span style="color: #333; text-decoration: underline;">MidnightBSD in action</span></caption>
129 <tbody>
130 <tr>
131 <td colspan="3" style="width: 400px;"><img src="images/screen_login.jpg" alt="screen shot: using MidnightBSD" id="screen" /></td>
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138 </tbody>
139 </table>
140
141 <p><a href="http://cs.emich.edu/mbsd/videos/demo1.mov">Watch</a> demo movie in QuickTime format.</p>
142
143 <p>Installing MidnightBSD videos:
144 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3504097528804636404">Video 1</a>
145 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1327567970434212474">Video 2</a>
146 or
147 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1215820984218210282&q=MidnightBSD&pr=goog-sl">part 1</a>
148 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6978382486264269794&pr=goog-sl">part 2</a>
149 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6990322451567856326&pr=goog-sl">part 3</a>
150 <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1079107845259123061&pr=goog-sl">part 4</a>
151 <br /> All of the install videos are on Google Video and the various MidnightBSD FTP mirrors.
152 </p>
153
154 <p><span style="text-align: center;">
155 <a href="download/index.html"><img src="images/dvd.png" alt="Download" style="float: left;" /></a><br />
156 <a href="download/index.html">Download</a>
157 MidnightBSD
158 </span></p>
159
160 <p><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/midnightbsd">Purchase</a> MidnightBSD merchandise to support the project.</p>
161
162 <p>Track development and changes to MidnightBSD with our <a href="http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd">development blog</a>. </p>
163
164 <p>View recent <a href="http://cia.vc/stats/project/midnightbsd">CVS activity</a> through a friendly web interface. (commit logs)</p>
165
166 <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>
167
168 <p><a href="http://bugreport.midnightbsd.org/">View/Report</a> Bugs.</p>
169
170 <p>View our <a href="mports/README.html">ports</a> with descriptions.</p>
171
172 <p>Subscribe to our <a href="/mailman/listinfo">mailing lists.</a></p>
173
174 <table>
175 <thead>
176 <tr>
177 <th>Getting Source</th>
178 </tr>
179 </thead>
180
181 <tbody>
182 <tr>
183 <td><a href="cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi" title="View the CVS Repository on the web">CVSWeb</a></td>
184 </tr>
185
186 <tr>
187 <td><a href="developer/cvsup.html" title="Download source or mports">CVSup</a></td>
188 </tr>
189 </tbody>
190 </table>
191
192 <h3>Security</h3>
193
194 <p>August 1, 2007<br />
195 BIND and Tcpdump were patched in 0.2 and 0.1 for recent security issues. BIND is now equivalent to 9.3.4p1.
196 </p>
197
198 <p>May 2, 2007<br />
199 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.
200 </p>
201 <p>March 10, 2007<br />
202 While many of the DST changes were imported last year, we decided to cover all cases and import
203 the latest tzdata2007c. Users concerned about DST changes should update their sources
204 and rebuild. The java ports may not have DST changes in place. We will review that issue.
205 </p>
206 <p>Jaunary 23, 2007<br />
207 A &quot;symlink&quot; exploit was found in the MidnightBSD jail system. A fix was made available. Please
208 update your /etc/rc.d/jail file from cvs. Patches will not be created until our first release.
209 </p>
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