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 (x86_64) and as Virtual Machines.
MidnightBSD was forked from FreeBSD 6.1 beta. The system was forked to allow the project to customize and integrate the environment including the ports and system configuration.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | Xfce |
| Init Software: | RC |
| Package Management: | mports |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | i386, x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.midnightbsd.org |
| Developer: | Lucas Holt |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distros which is currently under development. |
What's a Linux distribution ("distro")? |
| A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system. Each distro makes different choices, deciding which open source projects to install and provides custom written programs. They can have different philosophies. Some distros are intended for desktop computers, some for servers without a graphical interface, and others for special uses. Because Linux is an open source operating system, combinations of software vary between Linux distros. |
I use this distro, it’s first class.