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I feel like Minix is underappreciated. I'm reading Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems at the moment and he makes a persuasive appeal for some of its unique t
by lordleft 6y ago
I feel like Minix is underappreciated. I'm reading Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems at the moment and he makes a persuasive appeal for some of its unique takes of the *nix OS family.
- pavehawk2007 6y agoMinix 3 has taken on a life of its own and is maintained here: https://minix3.org/ https://minix3.org/ I had trouble finding really good documentation on the filesystem itself, so it took a bit of trial-and-error to figure out the structure.
- lordleft 6y agoYou're doing impressive work! Thank you for writing this up and sharing your progress!
- pavehawk2007 6y agoThank you! I appreciate the kind words.
- sillywalk 6y agoFrom the website, it looks like development stopped in 2016. I read some of the papers on Minix3, and the Loris storage stack. From the bits I understood, it looks pretty interesting.
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- abawany 6y agoIt is a really good book and I credit it for saving me when I took an undergraduate class in operating systems a long time ago: the book chosen for the course was mostly incomprehensible to me but reading Tannenbaum's tome was eye opening and insightful. Edit: spelling.