Computers: Software: Operating_Systems: Unix: MINIX

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MINIX 3
- Unix clone that is free, small, flexible, secure, and self-healing, leading to high reliability, even during software faults. Descriptions, FAQ, book, newsgroup, screenshots, bug reports, downloads. [open source, BSD-like]

Amsterdam Compiler Kit
Port of ACK to Minix 2.0. This compiler is the standard Minix system compiler, and used to compile the kernel. Supports C, Basic, Occam. [open source, BSD-style]

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Professor, Free University, Amsterdam; author of MINIX Unix variant. Full source code. Free for all uses. Small size, microkernel, ample documentation. Users unfamiliar with OS internals can understand nearly the full system with a few months use and study. MINIX inspired Linus Torvalds to do Linux.

Bibliography on Minix, a UNIX-like OS
Part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection of Alf-Christian Achilles.

Brad's MacMinix Page
MINIX that runs atop Mac OS. Benefits: while learning about operating systems, its easy to recompile and relaunch, with no rebooting; and to keep OS backups in separate files.

MacMinix
Macintosh version of the UNIX clone Minix.

MINIX
This directory and subdirectories contain MINIX, a small Unix-like system for IBM PCs and compatibles.

Minix
Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

Minix Network Service Documentation
Line-by-line comments of source code for TCP/IP networking protocols, network service, for Minix version 2.0.4. By Christos Karayiannis, Andrew Swartzbaugh.

Minix on the Net
Documents, help files, hints, links.

The Minix Operating System
Major resource of information on, downloads of, and software for, Minix.

Minix Tips
Information on how to use and extend Minix 3, and run software on it; website server uses Minix; weblog format, many practical posts.

MINIX.ORG
Repository for OS related: documentation, help, information, news, links, books, source code, downloads. Not the official MINIX website.

Minix-vmd
Overdressed version of Minix; source, binaries, man pages.

Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3/E
By Andrew S Tanenbaum, Albert S Woodhull; Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN 0131429388. Revised simplified edition, for latest MINIX version. An OS text which first explains relevant principles, then demonstrate their use via Unix-like OS as a detailed example.

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