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MINIX Information Sheet Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum's famous UNIX clone. Full source code. Free for education or research use. Small size, microkernel-based design, ample documentation. A user unfamiliar with OS internals can understand nearly the entire system with a few months use and study. MINIX inspired Linus Torvalds to do Linux. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html MINIX.ORG Repository for OS related: documentation, help, information, news, links, books, source code, downloads. Not the official MINIX website. http://www.minix.org/ Minix1.Hampshire.edu The first web site based upon standard Minix. News, source, contributions, documentation, links. http://minix1.hampshire.edu/ Brad's MacMinix Page MINIX that runs atop Mac OS. Benefits: while learning about operating systems, its easy to recompile and relaunch, with no rebooting; and to keep OS backups in separate files. http://www.pliner.com/macminix/ Minix-vmd Overdressed version of Minix; source, binaries, man pages. http://www.minix-vmd.org/ Bibliography on Minix, a UNIX-like OS Part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection of Alf-Christian Achilles. http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Os/minix.html |
