Christian Reinhardt replaced Phil Pereira as the lead "mports" maintainer prior to the release of MidnightBSD 0.1.

MidnightBSD is named after Lucas and Caryn Holt's cat, Midnight, a ten-pound black Turkish Angora.

While the low level tools and general environment felt familiar to me as a FreeBSD user, there were frequently pieces of the experience missing.

Further, according to the MidnightBSD website, the project aims to provide a beginner-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system, similar to FreeBSD.

However, from my experiences this past week, it seems as though MidnightBSD lags behind GhostBSD, PC-BSD and even FreeBSD in providing a newcomer-friendly platform.

In short, I feel that MidnightBSD, while it began with promise and admirable goals, has fallen behind in technology, user experience and documentation.