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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 s
by 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 agoOkay, 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 agoMaybe 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.