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