took place the release of the desktop-oriented operating system bowltbsd 2.2 based on FreeBSD with elements ported from Dragonfly BSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The basic desktop-reduction is built on the basis of Gnustep, but users have the opportunity to install Windowmaker, Gnome, XFCE or Lumina. To download prepared an installation image in size 774 MB ( X86 , amd64 ). . To control packages in MidnightBSD, the MPORT system is involved, which uses the SQLite database for storing indices and metadata. Installation, deletion and search for packages is carried out using a single command mport .
The main changes:
- Updated versions of programs, including Perl 5.36.0, Openssh 8.8p1, Lua 5.3.6, Subversion 1.14.1, SQLite 3.38.2.
- command membrane code/bin/sh synchronized with a branch FreeBSD 12-Stable.
- A command shell is exhibited by the Root by the Root by default
TCSH instead of CSH and LESS utility for a page withdrawal is applied. - Added patches from the PFSENSE project, which increase the performance of the Dummynet traffic cutting system from 2GB/S to 4GB/S.
- MPort package manager is updated to version 2.2.0. Libdispatch and GCD are excluded from dependencies, which allows you to form statically MPORT assemblies. The PLIST added “Desktop-File-Utils” option and the possibility of creating packages with nucleus modules was implemented. Added support for the use of Chroot to update individual jail-rings.
- Netcat supported SCTP from FreeBSD.
- LIBC added PTSNAME_R.
- FreeBSD has been postponed errors for ipfilter.
- In the initial load script, the inclusion of DBUS and HALD.
is ensured.
You can also note release Project Dragonfly BSD 6.2.2 , developing an operating system with a hybrid core, created in 2003 with the aim of alternative development of the FreeBSD 4.X. Of the features of the Dragonfly BSD, you can note the distributed version of the Hammer file, the ability to download the “virtual” nuclei of the system as user processes, means of caching of data and meta-dane FS on SSD-drives, contextual-dependent symbolic links, the possibility of freezing processes while maintaining their condition disk and a hybrid core using lightweight flows (LWKT). In the new issue, only error corrections .