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.

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]

Get Balena Etcher for Windows/Mac/Linux to create bootable USB Stick here:

https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher

Visit the MidnightBSD website here:

https://midnightbsd.org/

Support the MidnightBSD developers here:

https://midnightbsd.org/donate/

Support the FreeBSD Foundation here:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate-to-freebsd-foundation/