MidnightBSD

Both the sendmail and dovecot ports were updated to the most recent versions. ...

I've added a new torrent for the latest 0.1 snapshot. The link is 0 1-20070525-SNAP-i386-disc1 iso...

I updated the MySQL port to 5.0.41.  I added a bittorrent client, ctorrent.  adodb for php was added to mports/databases. ...

I've updated linux-firefox to 2.0.0.4.  This is a recommended security update for all users of that port. ...

The GENERIC kernel configuration is now SMP enabled.  With new processors shipping with at least two cores, it makes sense to look forward with MidnightBSD.  By the time we ship 1.0, these new systems should be commonplace.  This change is only in CURRENT and will not be done in STABLE. ...

I just purchased a Widescreen display for my PC.  It was a low cost (read cheap) display from westinghouse.  I couldn't get X11 to display anything except at 1280x1024 which isn't even supported by the display!  Very strange.  After a little ... [More] googling, I learned about the ModeLine property for monitors in X11.  I've written a blog entry on the setting changes here.... [Less]

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259This could effect MidnightBSD distribution in Germany. ...

ctriv has created a new i386 snapshot. Look for 0.1-20070525-SNAP which includes the latest security update....

Security UpdateThe recent file magic issue discovered in FreeBSD has been patched in MidnightBSD. Current and Stable have been updated. cvsup to get the latest updates.Documentation Updatectriv updated the documentation ...

I've been quite busy with real life lately.  ctriv and wintellect have been working on the MidnightBSD mports system.  Our ports tree changes have been coming along nicely.  Many ports are working on i386 and amd64.  Tonight I've been adding some ... [More] benchmarking applications.  Here's a run from bonniedefiant# bonnieFile './Bonnie.7486', size: 104857600Writing with putc()...doneRewriting...doneWriting intelligently...done [Less]