MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
With a small community of dedicated developers, MidnightBSD strives to create an easy-to-use operating system everyone can use, freely. Available for x86, AMD64 and as Virtual Machines.
We hope to create something unique. Project goals include:
- A new window and login manager. [Replaced by Etoile, then xfce + mlogind]
- Centralized system preferences while maintaining the BSD style on the command line.
- A graphical ports and package management system. Currently we use a derivative of FreeBSD ports. [Now we have mports]
- Work on various portions of the kernel including syscons, process and disk scheduling, imports of FreeBSD and OpenBSD drivers, etc.
- Importing useful features from DragonFly, MirBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.
- Improving security with little distraction to the end user. [ipfw is enabled in 0.2+, sudo added, many other changes are coming]
Visit the MidnightBSD project website here:
http://www.midnightbsd.org/
Donate and support the MidnightBSD project here:
http://www.midnightbsd.org/donate/