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The End Of Minix?

Posted by timothy on from the i'm-shrinking-i'm-shrinking dept.

Otter writes "Minix is best known as the Unix clone for x86 that inspired Linus Torvalds to write one himself. It's pretty much dropped off the map since. The latest patch for XFree86's xterm drops support for Minix. As the changelog notes, 'Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996.'"

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  1. Minix is not Dead !!! by javacodewarrior · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How could minix die, my OS classes was the minix OS. We took the book, learned the concepts and then rewrote parts of the OS for assignments. Minix is the only OS small enough to teach, and still be relivant to current OS implementations to carry over. I like Linux, but it is too big to teach in one semester. Minix fills a much needed space in the OS land scape. -- GTD

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  2. Re:Hmmm... by BitGeek · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    The BSDs are free, both as in Beer and as in Speech.

    What other definition of "Free" are you using?

    Since the GPL is designed to destroy the software industry (it wants to be the wedge that makes it impossible for anyone to ever charge for software) I don't consider the GPL and the GNU project to be about freedom, in any shape or form.

    The BSD license is far more free-- you're FREE to do anything you want with the code.

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