MINIX is much, much closer to being a fully working OS. Hell, you can run X11 on it, it can recompile itself, it has a package manager. xv6, on the other hand,

MINIX is much, much closer to being a fully working OS. Hell, you can run X11 on it, it can recompile itself, it has a package manager. xv6, on the other hand, is just bare kernel with no functional purpose.