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Honest question: Is somebody using MINIX as a production system? I suppose it is not very popular as a server system, but since its current target is embedded u
by krylon 11y ago
Honest question: Is somebody using MINIX as a production system? I suppose it is not very popular as a server system, but since its current target is embedded use, are there any products built on/around MINIX?
- david-given 11y agoDon't know, would be interested to find out. FWIW: Minix 2 will still get you a fully functional Unixoid on a PC XT with 8086 processor and 640kB RAM. (It'll run in less, but I assume you want to run some processes in addition to the shell.) And Minix 3 is a complete ground up rewrite, substantially more sophisticated, with a ludicrously small footprint and NetBSD compatibility (I believe it comes with NetBSD Ports).
- rwmj 11y agoFor quite a while around 1991/1992 I had Minix 1.5 running on an NEC V30 [8086 clone], with a dumb terminal plugged into the serial port, and it (just about) allowed two people to do useful work. Certainly editing files with microemacs and compiling with the ACK compiler was possible.
- phicoh 11y agoMINIX3 is not a ground up rewrite. It started off with the MINIX2 sources. A lot has been added and changed. Mainly to provide complete fault isolation for device drivers. (Aside from adding missing functionality)
- phicoh 11y agoIn the early nineties, Kees Bot and I created a fork of MINIX called Minix-vmd. Some instances of that have been running production for close to 20 years now. Mainly as mail, usenet news, and http server and as routers.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoHow often do the more active ones last between failures? Just curious.
- phicoh 11y agoNormally, in the order of many months.