MINIX 3
MINIX 3 is a project to develop an operating system as reliable as a TV set, for embedded systems and mission critical applications, but also for future $50 single-chip laptops and general desktop use. The focus is being small, simple, and reliable.
MINIX 3 has a bright future but somewhat checkered past.
- First released in 1987
- first UNIX clone with all the source code available
The first version, MINIX 1, was released in 1987 and was the first UNIX clone with all the source code available. It developed rapidly and soon had its own USENET newsgroup (comp.os.minix), with 40,000 subscribers within 3 months, a large number at a time when the Internet was only available to university researchers and students. One of the early MINIX adopters was a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds, who went out and bought a PC just to run MINIX, studied it very carefully, and then decided to write his own operating system, inspired by MINIX. Although Linus knew MINIX very well, he didn't steal any code from it, as some people have alleged. Linus system grew into the modern Linux system. MINIX' author, Andrew Tanenbaum and Torvalds have had some fairly public discussions on operating system design, originally in 1992 and most recently in 2006.
Although MINIX was (and still is) widely used used for teaching operating systems courses at universities, it got a new impetus in 2005 when Tanenbaum assembled a new team of people to completely redo it as a highly reliable system. MINIX 3 has some history with MINIX 1 and MINIX 2 (released in 1997 as a POSIX-conformant OS), but it is really a new system (analogous to the relationship between Windows XP and Windows 3.1).
In our Operating Systems subject, we were asked to choose an operating system that is not widely used. Our group chose to have the MINIX 3. The other groups also had a report on their chosen operating systems and that discussion was really an interesting one. They presented OpenSUSE, Fedorra, ReactOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux and a lot more. Some operating systems presented really looked like the widely used Windows Operating System.
The environment of MINIX3, the operating system we chose to present in class, was like the one with the LINUX operating system since both operating systems are text mode. Above is part of our presentation.
MINIX 3 is a project to develop an operating system as reliable as a TV set, for embedded systems and mission critical applications, but also for future $50 single-chip laptops and general desktop use. The focus is being small, simple, and reliable.
MINIX 3 has a bright future but somewhat checkered past.
- First released in 1987
- first UNIX clone with all the source code available
The first version, MINIX 1, was released in 1987 and was the first UNIX clone with all the source code available. It developed rapidly and soon had its own USENET newsgroup (comp.os.minix), with 40,000 subscribers within 3 months, a large number at a time when the Internet was only available to university researchers and students. One of the early MINIX adopters was a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds, who went out and bought a PC just to run MINIX, studied it very carefully, and then decided to write his own operating system, inspired by MINIX. Although Linus knew MINIX very well, he didn't steal any code from it, as some people have alleged. Linus system grew into the modern Linux system. MINIX' author, Andrew Tanenbaum and Torvalds have had some fairly public discussions on operating system design, originally in 1992 and most recently in 2006.
Although MINIX was (and still is) widely used used for teaching operating systems courses at universities, it got a new impetus in 2005 when Tanenbaum assembled a new team of people to completely redo it as a highly reliable system. MINIX 3 has some history with MINIX 1 and MINIX 2 (released in 1997 as a POSIX-conformant OS), but it is really a new system (analogous to the relationship between Windows XP and Windows 3.1).
In our Operating Systems subject, we were asked to choose an operating system that is not widely used. Our group chose to have the MINIX 3. The other groups also had a report on their chosen operating systems and that discussion was really an interesting one. They presented OpenSUSE, Fedorra, ReactOS, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux and a lot more. Some operating systems presented really looked like the widely used Windows Operating System.
The environment of MINIX3, the operating system we chose to present in class, was like the one with the LINUX operating system since both operating systems are text mode. Above is part of our presentation.
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