MidnightBSD 3.0 Available With Many Software Updates & Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MidnightBSD 3.0 Available With Many Software Updates & Fixes

MidnightBSD as the desktop-focused OS forked from FreeBSD and relying on the Xfce desktop environment by default is out with its big MidnightBSD 3.0 update...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.0-Released

[skeevy420]

I thought that headline was funny in an ironic sort of way because I don't think I've ever read a headline that said something like "KDE 6.1 Now Available with Many Software Downgrades and Bugs Introduced"

In case you need some ammo for next week

[ermo]

FreeBSD 12?

Anecdotally, my experience with 12.x has been rather poor. 13.x has been much less painful for me re. Linux DRI/DRM subsystem and AMD GPU support in general.

Not to mention that FreeBSD 13.2 is right around the corner. Don't know how MidnightBSD is run/curated (and how much dev resource it has), but rebasing on the 13.x series honestly seems a good thing to aim for? But perhaps the choice of 12-STABLE is the equivalent of deriving from the latest Ubuntu LTS in Linux land to avoid too much underlying stack churn?

[kylew77]

MidnightBSD has always seemed insanely niche in an already niche field. It is not binary compatible with FreeBSD since it is a fork like DragonFlyBSD so it misses out on niceties like the Nvidia driver and such. GhostBSD on the other hand, is just a nice gui layer on top of FreeBSD and is essentially the same thing as FreeBSD with a prebuilt MATE or XFCE4 desktop installed on top.

[idrisz19]

GhostBSD on the other hand, is just a nice gui layer on top of FreeBSD and is essentially the same thing as FreeBSD with a prebuilt MATE or XFCE4 desktop installed on top.

MidnightBSD and vanilla FreeBSD provide encryption during the installation process while GhostBSD still doesn't. That's a non-starter for privacy-conscious folks.