MidnightBSD 0.4 Betters The FreeBSD Desktop

[archibald]

Because talking to people to get your features included in mainline to make _one_ good system is way too much effort.

The main FreeBSD team is working on a new package management system (pkgng), so they would be very unlikely to want this new packaging system. This is the major difference between PC-BSD and FreeBSD as well - PC-BSD has the PBI system as well as ports.

[YoungManKlaus]

Lets fork everything!

Because talking to people to get your features included in mainline to make _one_ good system is way too much effort.

[Cthulhux]

After all, ?toil? is a pretty good approach to a modern desktop, even 20 years after the design was widely spread.

I still wonder why it hasn't gained a wider audience yet.
(Also I thought MidnightBSD was dead. I was wrong, obviously.)

[n3wu53r]

What I find more interesting is their use of GNUStep and ?toil?.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MidnightBSD 0.4 Betters The FreeBSD Desktop

MidnightBSD 0.4 has been released as an operating system derived from FreeBSD 9.1, but with many extra features, including a new package management tool...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQwNDg