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MINIX 3.0 Released

October 24, 2005 | Comments (0)

Today Andy Tanenbaum officially released Minix version 3. I didn’t know that this operating system was still developed. I was under the impression that after Linus Torvalds forked it to create Linux it became obsolete…

“MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable and secure. It is based somewhat on previous versions of MINIX, but is fundamentally different in many key ways. MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability.”

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Well actually Linus couldn't have forked Minix because the license of versions 1.0 (and 2.0 too I believe) are incompatible with the GNU GPL.

Linus however did use Minix as the OS to compile the first Linux kernels with...

Posted by: :) Little Penguin at October 29, 2005 10:56 AM

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