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"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
by 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.