MidnightBSD 0.3

MidnightBSD is a FreeBSD 6 fork aimed at providing an easy-to-use desktop experience. MidnightBSD aims to provide a GNUstep desktop with a solid BSD core. MidnightBSD contains both BSD and GPL licensed code.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 0.3 includes exciting new features such as support for ZFS, mDNSResponder for multicast DNS, libdispatch (no blocks support yet), brainfuck(1), AMD CPU temperature monitoring, updates to the linux emulation layer (2.6.16 compatibility) and the OpenBSD sensors framework.

· This release includes a large merge from FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Developers voted on the decision to merge many aspects of FreeBSD 7 into MidnightBSD in November 2008. This merge took some time and delayed the 0.3-RELEASE. It is not planned to do anything of this nature again. This release is thus based on FreeBSD 7.0 instead of 6.1.

· Several new scripts have been added to make it easier to manage the system. One of these is netwait in rc.d. It allows you to wait for a network interface to come up while booting to ensure network activity is ready for touchy software.
· Updated Software

The following software packages were updated for this release:
· batt(1) rewritten in C
· BIND 9.6.1-P2
· bzip2 1.0.6
· cpudup (DragonFly)
· diffutils 2.8.7
· em(4)
· GCC 4.2.1
· libarchive (2.5.5) with bsdcpio
· libreadline 5.2 (GNU)
· mksh R39c
· nve(4)
· OpenNTPD 4.4
· OpenSSH 5.3p1
· OpenSSL .98e
· pnpinfo
· Sendmail 8.14.4
· sudo 1.7.2p6
· sqlite 3.6.23
· tcpdump 3.9.8
· tzdata 2010e
· unzip (BSD)
· zlib 1.2.5

New software:
· ale(4)
· amdtemp(4)
· audit (OpenBSM)
· brainfuck (MirBSD)
· firmware(9) from FreeBSD
· jemalloc (FreeBSD)
· libdispatch
· libffi 3.0.9
· makefs (NetBSD)
· mDNSResponder
· mport tools (optional new package system)
· netpgp (NetBSD)
· nfe(4)
· Sensors framework (OpenBSD) including sensorsd(8)
· ZFS (v6)

Removed software:
· Alpha & PC98 utilities from usr/sbin
· pcc
· pcvt(4)
· HPFS support