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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.'"
Apple has only had a small colony of crazy hippies as their sole users since before '96 and Steve Jobs is still holding out hope. ;)
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Nice comparison. Lego and Meccano (aka "Erector Set" in the US) are toys too, but can be darn educational and occasionally useful. And fun.
-- Alastair
Now developers can focus their efforts on Linux.
Looking at kernel.org, I see a list of 16 different platforms that run Linux...I see 5 that would run Minix 1.5...Only 1 that runs 2.0...
It's obvious that the developers have already started leaving for Linux development.
Can anyone honestly say that there is a good reason to use Minix over Linux/BSD???
I think it says something when the main page for a "modern" OS isn't running its own web server...
I'm sure there's a good reason why the development team decided to remove Minix support from xterm...this was most likely holding back development of new features.
I actually cant wait for version 5.0 of XFree86...we finally get color mouse pointers (currently available through CVS)...
Buzz, you're wrong - but thanks for playing.
Linux the Kernel is not an commercial operating system.
No company are selling the kernel as far as I know.
Some companys are however selling GNU based distributions with the Linux kernel - but that's another beast.
Just saying it like it are.