MidnightBSD Description
It includes all the software that you would expect to use for daily tasks, such as email, web browsing and word processing. MidnightBSD is a small group of dedicated developers who strive to make an operating system that everyone can use freely. Available for x86 and AMD64 as well as Virtual Machines. Although the FreeBSD project has created a reliable server operating system, it is often not usable or performant on the desktop. Desktop users should be able to customize scheduling, allocation of resources and security settings. Many of the BSD projects can be used on older hardware or servers. Some distributions of FreeBSD have a nice graphical user interface but suffer from a server-centric design underneath the hood. We didn't fork FreeBSD out of spite, but rather to provide a good starting point.
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GhostBSD
GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system that uses FreeBSD. It includes MATE, OpenRC, and OS packages. GhostBSD comes pre-installed with a variety of commonly used software. This allows you to quickly get started using it to its full potential. GhostBSD uses GTK to create a beautiful look and an enjoyable experience on the modern BSD platform that offers a natural and native Unix environment. GhostBSD is built upon FreeBSD code and its roots are at the University of California Berkeley Unix Research. It was originally called "BSD Unix" (or "Berkeley Unix") in the past. It is now known as BSD for Berkeley Software Distribution. The project's goal is to provide security, privacy and stability as well as openness, freedom, freedom, and accessibility for everyone free of charge. Tools like Networkmgr, which were developed as part the GhostBSD project, enhance the user experience.
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD has many advanced networking, security, and compatibility features that are not available in commercial operating systems. FreeBSD is an ideal Internet and Intranet server. It can provide reliable network services even under heavy loads. It also uses memory efficiently to maintain high response times for thousands concurrent user processes. FreeBSD provides advanced network operating system features for embedded platforms and appliances, including Intel-based appliances and ARM, PowerPC and MIPS hardware platforms. Vendors around the globe rely on FreeBSD for their embedded products, which includes mail and web appliances, routers, time servers and wireless access points. They can also decide how many local changes they want back through the Berkeley open-source license.
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OmniOS
Open-source enterprise server OS that only has the features you need. ZFS, OmniOS' native File System, combines a volume manger and a file system with strong data integrity protection. You can easily share volumes using CIFS, iSCSI, and NFS. You can run lightweight OmniOS and Linux virtual machines in containers, without the overhead of traditional hypervisors. Also, you have full resource control. OmniOS supports full hardware virtualization via KVM and bhyve for guest OSes such as Microsoft Windows and FreeBSD. Crossbow virtual interfaces, switches and switches allow you to virtualize your network infrastructure and even allocate resources for specific services. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing tool that can be used to assist with troubleshooting across all software stacks. You can instrument anything you need, and it is always available. OmniOS is open-source and self-hosted. It is maintained on GitHub. Every step of development is open source, and anyone can grab the source code and build OmniOS.
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NomadBSD
NomadBSD, a persistent living system for USB flash drives that is based on FreeBSD®, is called NomadBSD. It is equipped with hardware detection and setup. It can be used as a desktop system, but it can also be used to recover data, test FreeBSD®, or for educational purposes. A 5GB USB flash drive can hold the images for both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. NomadBSD should run well on a system with a 1.2GHz CPU, 1G RAM, and a decent processor. BIOS and UEFI are both available for booting. We have changed the versioning scheme to FFfX YYYYMMDD. FF is the major two digit FreeBSD version and f is the minor one. X stands for ALPHA, BETA, RC, RC or RELEASE (R). The date is followed by the number. We can now provide images with different versions of FreeBSD using the new scheme.
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MidnightBSD
Website:
www.midnightbsd.org
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