[PC-BSD Testing] Did anyone catch this info on MidnightBSD?

[Arthur Koziol]

On 02/01/2011 8:58 AM, Mike Bybee wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Arthur Koziol<A-Koziol at neiu.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> On 01/31/2011 11:16 PM, jmdennis @dslextreme.com wrote:
>>      
>>> If you scroll down a little bit on the link they talk about GhostBSD
>>> that wants to have an application installer like other distributions.
>>>
>>> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110124#news
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Arthur Koziol<A-Koziol at neiu.edu>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> "Lucas Holt has announced the release of MidnightBSD 0.3, an operating
>>>> system (forked from FreeBSD 6) with a goal of creating an easy-to-use
>>>> desktop environment with graphical ports management and system
>>>> configuration:...." (my bold)
>>>>
>>>> Wow. I haven't tried it yet but I wonder how handy a GUI managed port
>>>> system
>>>> would be for some people? I thought that was interested as it immediately
>>>> caught my eye. Just wanted to pass it along.
>>>>
>>>> Arthur
>>>>
>>>>          
>> Isn't the app installer change the big thing in BSD 9.0?
>>
>> Arthur
>>      
> CLANG and USB3 are the parts I know that I'm looking forward too...
> but I agree. Wouldn't it be *great* if someone were to come up with a
> nice, simple GUI for installing ports and packages? It'd be even nicer
> if it were based on a *current* FreeBSD, not FreeBSD 6.
>
> Oh well. Guess I'm stuck with PC-BSD for now :)

Didn't USB 3 support get snuck into 8-CURENT? I could swear I read that 
it did.

I wouldn't doubt some enterprising person will see how the ports GUI 
works in the .3 version of MidnightBSD and figure out how to make it 
work in BSD 8 or 9. Old-schoolers and purists might shrug but choice 
isn't such a bad thing. If you look at the development cycle of 
MidnightBSD, it'll hit 1.0 some time in 2020. By then, well....ports and 
packages will be installed via mental telepathy of course. :-)

Arthur