MidnightBSD derived on FreeBSD 6.1-beta, with the goal of creating an easy to use desktop environment with a graphical ports management system and system configuration using GNUstep.
The MidnightBSD Project goals include:
- A new window and login manager. [Replaced by Etoile]
- 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, OpenBSD and NetBSD.
- Improving security with little distraction to the end user. [ipfw is enabled in CURRENT, many other changes are coming]
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