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If you're think of this as a Linux vs Minix 'war' then you are looking at it the wrong way. Minix is intended for research/education. Its not going to replace L

If you're think of this as a Linux vs Minix 'war' then you are looking at it the wrong way. Minix is intended for research/education. Its not going to replace Linux because they do different things.

vivekprakash 15y ago
I didn't intend to sound the way it seems i sounded. Sorry for that! Btw, the focus of Minix 3 has changed and it is no longer intended just for research/education. Minix 3 was publicly announced on 24 October 2005 by Andrew Tanenbaum and it is comprehensively redesigned to be usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.
dchest 15y ago
Not anymore: "It was only with the third version, MINIX 3, and the third version of the book, published in 2006, that the emphasis changed from teaching to a serious research and production system, especially for embedded systems. A few of the many differences between MINIX 2 and MINIX 3 are given here. Going forward, we are making a serious effort to turn MINIX 3 in an industrial-grade system with a focus on the embedded market, especially for those applications that need high reliability and availability." http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html
- andyjohnson0 15y ago
  Okay, I wasn't aware of the Minix 3 redesign, so I stand corrected on that. Thanks for updating me! But I'm fairly skeptical about how much use (if any) Minix is getting outside research and education. Aren't there already widely deployed HR/HA OSs that target the embedded market? What real advantages does Minix have over something like VxWorks?
  - pjmlp 15y ago
    Maybe by being open source. Does VxWorks come with source code? I guess this might be critical to some type of applications. For me the positive is to see more microkernel architectures getting spread.

If you're think of this as a Linux vs Minix 'war' then you are looking at it the wrong way. Minix is intended for research/education. Its not going to replace Linux because they do different things.

vivekprakash 15y ago

I didn't intend to sound the way it seems i sounded. Sorry for that! Btw, the focus of Minix 3 has changed and it is no longer intended just for research/education. Minix 3 was publicly announced on 24 October 2005 by Andrew Tanenbaum and it is comprehensively redesigned to be usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.

dchest 15y ago

Not anymore: "It was only with the third version, MINIX 3, and the third version of the book, published in 2006, that the emphasis changed from teaching to a serious research and production system, especially for embedded systems. A few of the many differences between MINIX 2 and MINIX 3 are given here. Going forward, we are making a serious effort to turn MINIX 3 in an industrial-grade system with a focus on the embedded market, especially for those applications that need high reliability and availability." http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html

andyjohnson0 15y ago
Okay, I wasn't aware of the Minix 3 redesign, so I stand corrected on that. Thanks for updating me! But I'm fairly skeptical about how much use (if any) Minix is getting outside research and education. Aren't there already widely deployed HR/HA OSs that target the embedded market? What real advantages does Minix have over something like VxWorks?
- pjmlp 15y ago
  Maybe by being open source. Does VxWorks come with source code? I guess this might be critical to some type of applications. For me the positive is to see more microkernel architectures getting spread.