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Minix from Scratch Project Established

Posted by timothy on from the but-that's-unpossible dept.

decuser writes "The MFS - Minix from Scratch project was established in the wake of the Brown-Tannenbaum controversy. MFS aims to be to the Minix community what LFS is to the Linux community, a recipe for building an alternative OS from 'scratch.'" See the project's website at mfs.sunsite.dk or minixfromscratch.org.

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  1. Horray! by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Funny
    All six of us are happy. :-)

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  2. My god people by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could lead to the second coming of Linus !!! Let us rejoice and sacrafice junior VB coders to the Gods of Code.

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  3. A microkernel by the community? by chemstar · · Score: 4, Funny



    Hasn't HURD been trying this for 15 years?

  4. This is for real, folks. by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just look at all the valuable information available on the MFS Wiki. Lots of useful information suggesting hours and hours of labor by Minix users everywhere. I predict this will be the Next Big Thing. Minix installations everywhere, sweeping the nation, sweeping the world, while Linux fades into obscurity. With BSD dying and Apple beleaguered, Minix will become the next major competitor to Windows.

    1. Re:This is for real, folks. by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      Linux becomes mainstream and the cranky hackers move on to BSD. Then BSD becomes mainstream and the cranky hackers move on to MFS. But where do they go when MFS becomes mainstream?

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    2. Re:This is for real, folks. by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 4, Funny

      My guess is that they'll take a well-deserved vacation, and go cross-country skiing in Hell.

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  5. Re:Agree. Better places to put in effort by EvilAlien · · Score: 5, Funny
    Do you seriously think Hurd will ever actually achieve "real OS" status? The project started in bloody 1990 after 7 years of RMS flailing around in his attempts to build a free OS.

    I expect Microsoft to move towards a BSD-ish source license and that I will be playing Duke Nukem Forever on the Phantom console or Linux before Hurd becomes a real OS ;)

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  6. Re:I mistook Lindows for Windows... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in 2002 or 2003, a Windows admin suggested that I check out a PC operating system called "Windows." Back then, "googling" consisted of pointing a browser at http://www.google.com/ and manually traversing all the porn pages returned looking for something interesting. I don't remember if it was at http://www.google.com/ or http://www.google.de/, or even on http://labs.google.com/, but I eventually stumbled across this PC Windows clone called "Lindows." It sounded right, so I went with it.

    Months later, I spoke to the admin again, and found that I was mistaken. Rather than downling thousands of MegaBytes of files for an unreliable operating system, I had a fairly functional Linux workstation which ran Windows programs, ethernet and all the rest of the good stuff that Linux users take for granted today like reliability and security but are PC fantasies for Windows XP users.

  7. Re:Gentoo... by mrchaotica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Package management is for sissies!

    (just kidding)

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