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The End Of Minix?
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.'"
will Andrew T. [Minix's creator] start another flame war? :-)
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
...I'd expect to see a post to comp.os.minix that had a single line:
In your face, Tanenbaum!
If there have been no users since 1996, is there really a need for the question mark in this article's headline?
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*Pours out some of the Colt 45 for the OS's from my hood that didn't make it* I'll miss you man.
Minix is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Minix community when last month IDC confirmed that Minix accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Minix has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Minix is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Minix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Minix because Minix is dying. Things are looking very bad for Minix As many of us are already aware, Minix continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Minix leader Julien states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of X86 Minix are there? Let's see. The number of X86 Minix versus 68K Minix posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 68K Minix users. PPC Minix posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of 68K Minix posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of PPC Minix. A recent article put X86 Minix at about 80 percent of the Minix market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 X86 Minix users. This is consistent with the number of X86 Minix Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Minix went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Minix has steadily declined in market share. Minix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Minix is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Minix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Minix is dead.
Minix is dying
Netcraft has now confirmed: Minix is dead Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Minix community when recently IDC confirmed that Minix accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraftsurvey which plainly states that Minix has mo market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Minix is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin operating system awareness test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Minix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Minix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Minix because Minix is dead. Things are looking very bad for Minix. As many of us are already aware, Minix has no market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Minix is the most endangered of all operating systems, having lost 99.99999% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996. This is consistent with the number of Minix related XFree86 Usenet posts.
All major surveys show that Minix has steadily declined in market share. Minix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are nil. If Minix is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Minix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Minix is dead.
Minix is dead.Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
McVoy issued another clause to his ButtKeeper license stating those working on Minix can go fuck themselves. Linus agreed. Then Larry started to throw his own feces around. At that point Linus was strangely silent, looking down at his feet uncomfortably.
What is wrong with the slashdot editors that they can't call it by its proper name: GNU/Minix !!!!
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
That we'll never see a Beowulf cluster of Minix machines?
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
I can't remember where I saw the thread, probably a Linux kernel news group eight or so years ago, but there was a friendly "I've used Linux longer than you" discussion where the winning entry said that they still had an entry for ast in /etc/passwd.
I've still got an IBM PC w/ a 10 MB HD that has Minix installed. I keep meaning to get rid of it, but just can't quite bring myself to do so. Someday I'll do it and then I'll probably see the same model being appraised for a small fortune on Antiques Roadshow.
FreeSpeech.org
I'm downloading it now, just to say I'm the only user left!
Please, dont download it and ruin it for me.
games.
Not really :)
A new variant on the tired:
"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
can be:
"Linux is obsolete" - Andy Tannenbaum
"Minix is obsolete" - Linus Torvalds
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> scandalous headlines on the frontpage
I remember the best joke of this year. In short: two friends goes hunting and one of them loses consciousness due to exhaustion. His friend seeks help on his cellphone: "Help! My friend is dead". The helpline says "Don't panic, I can help. Let's make sure he is dead". A moment of silence, then a gunshot. "Now what?".
Well, you never know when all hell could break loose. That's why you should keep an old vt100 behind a glass case for when the shit hits the fan, and you need a terminal, pronto!
"BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY"
This one's better. (Stolen from Fark)
"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
I just installed Minix on my XBox, and now I find out that it's dead.
if it's "Minux" for you, surely you mean a "Lexis"?
You know, there's some poor bastard out there reading this on a machine running Minix who just read the line, "no one's used it since 1996". Imagine for a moment, if you will, how that person must feel right now...
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
If Minix had been released under GPL, Linus might have simply written patches for it, rather than ginning up his own project.
And Linus wouldn't have to argue with AST. Look at my sig.
If it wasn't installed, everybody would think FreeBSD is dead like Minix.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
>Well, you never know when all hell could break
>loose. That's why you should keep an old vt100
>behind a glass case for when the shit hits the fan,
>and you need a terminal, pronto!
I know you're joking, but There Was This One Site...
We got a call from another office in our organization asking if we still had any VT100s, their last terminal had just died. We did not have any, and we asked them why they wanted one...
The were using them to configure hubs/switches etc, and didn't realize that any old PC running Procomm or Telix etc. would be an acceptable VT100 replacement.
I can just imagine those guys lugging around VT100s to set up new hubs, heh heh.
Our solution wasn't sexy, we had a 286 monochrome laptop with Procomm, but it sure was portable.
Well, as long as they don't drop support for Coherent, I'll be happy. :-)
I don't even really want to think about what kind of freak gets off looking at the ALT tags of porn pictures.