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...I have just installed Minix 2 on my new laptop; a 386 with 1MB RAM, running at 16MHz, with a 80MB (with an M) hard drive. In 16-bit mode, it runs beautifull
by david-given 10y ago
...I have just installed Minix 2 on my new laptop; a 386 with 1MB RAM, running at 16MHz, with a 80MB (with an M) hard drive.
In 16-bit mode, it runs beautifully (there's not quite enough RAM for the bigger 32-bit binaries). It's a pretty good Unix, with networking support, cut down versions of all the standard tools, it comes with full source and several toolchains making it almost completely self-hosted, and it'll rebuild its own kernel in 13 minutes.
It is beautiful. If you're interested in operating systems, definitely take a look. (There is a Minix 3, but I find it doesn't have the same minimalist charm.)
http://minix1.woodhull.com/ http://minix1.woodhull.com/
- nickpsecurity 10y ago"There is a Minix 3, but I find it doesn't have the same minimalist charm" They have same name but aren't really related. Minix 3 is a new OS designed to take place of a modern UNIX with higher reliability. They ported a NetBSD userland to get UNIX apps working. Main benefits are reincarnation server and more code being user-mode (i.e. limiting damage).
- Esau 10y agoI installed Minix 3 the other day in VMWare Fusion virtual machine. It felt a lot like running NetBSD due to the userland reason you mentioned. The one oddity I noticed in my brief testing was that the Minix DHCP client doesn't allow for setting your own hostname, even though NetBSD's does.