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<h2>Introduction</h2> |
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<p style="text-indent: 3em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 20px;">MidnightBSD |
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is a desktop operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), |
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and soon amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T) |
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architectures. It was originally based on <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> |
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6.1 Beta. The goal of the project is to create a BSD with ease of use and simplicity in mind.</p> |
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<h3>MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE</h3> |
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<strong>August 6, 2007</strong> |
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MidnightBSD 0.1-RELEASE is now available. It includes several software packages |
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such as ksh, sudo, OpenNTPD, gcc 3.4.4, BIND 9.3.4 (plus patch) and others in |
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the base system. Disc 1 ISO includes the entire Operating System and X11 (xorg 6.9) |
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packages. Disc 2 ISO includes a selection of additional packages such as |
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GNUstep, bash 3, zsh, and cups-base. There are additional packages on our FTP |
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server. More will be added in a few days. Only disc 1 is required for installation. |
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This release is intended for enthusiests, developers and people interested in |
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new operating systems that can handle bugs. The core OS is stable, but many |
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elements such as ports are in flux. |
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<p>Get 0.1: <a href="http://cs.emich.edu/mbsd/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/ ">Mirror 1</a> |
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<a href="ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1">Mirror 2</a> |
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<a href="http://www.midnightbsd.org/ftp/MidnightBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/0.1/">Official |
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<h4>0.1-RELEASE Errata</h4> |
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Installation issues |
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projectcenter.app package is missing dependancies on disc2. |
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mutt package is missing urlview dependancy on disc2. |
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GNUstep package includes gdnc which is missing libgcc_s.so.1. |
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bash 3 and gmake missing libintl.so.6. This can be fixed by uninstalling gettext |
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and building it from the port. A new package was placed on the FTP server. |
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System issues |
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CVSUP example for updating src fetches CURRENT instead of RELENG_0_1 |
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The new mports system was not included in the RELEASE. Many ports work in |
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mports that do not work in the old system. It is suggested that you update |
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your source using RELENG_0_1 and download the latest mports using CVS or CVSup. |
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Using Virtual PC for Windows: |
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If you install MidnightBSD in VPC, you will need to set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" |
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in /boot/device.hints This will help with the "calcru: negative runtime of" issue. |
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August 11, 2007: |
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The pkg_install tools found in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install were not updated for |
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mports. This has been corrected. You should be able to cvs update that directory |
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and run make install and get the new versions of pkg_add, pkg_delete, and so on. |
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<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1327567970434212474">Video 2</a> |
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or |
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<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1215820984218210282&q=MidnightBSD&pr=goog-sl">part 1</a> |
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<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6978382486264269794&pr=goog-sl">part 2</a> |
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<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6990322451567856326&pr=goog-sl">part 3</a> |
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<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1079107845259123061&pr=goog-sl">part 4</a> |
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<p>Track development and changes to MidnightBSD with our <a href="http://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd">development blog</a>. </p> |
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<p>View recent <a href="http://cia.vc/stats/project/midnightbsd">CVS activity</a> through a friendly web interface. (commit logs)</p> |
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<h3>Security</h3> |
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<p>August 1, 2007<br /> |
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BIND and Tcpdump were patched in 0.2 and 0.1 for recent security issues. BIND is now equivalent to 9.3.4p1. |
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<p>May 2, 2007<br /> |
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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. |
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<p>March 10, 2007<br /> |
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While many of the DST changes were imported last year, we decided to cover all cases and import |
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the latest tzdata2007c. Users concerned about DST changes should update their sources |
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and rebuild. The java ports may not have DST changes in place. We will review that issue. |
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<p>Jaunary 23, 2007<br /> |
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A "symlink" exploit was found in the MidnightBSD jail system. A fix was made available. Please |
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