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Midnight BSD 1.2

IN BRIEF

The OS was forked from FreeBSD 6.1 beta back in 2006 in order to create an optimised and usable BSD desktop OS. To that end, in addition to FreeBSD, the OS has imported features from DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD and also NetBSD.

SPECS

Mem: 1GB

HDD: 15GB

CPU: 1GHz

Builds: x86 32-bit, 64-bit

MidnightBSD isn’t the only project that’s working to help

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