Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Mar 2007 22:49 UTC, submitted by _DoubleThink_
"MINIX is an operating system designed for 'resource limited' or embedded computer systems. Versions 1 and 2 were teaching operating systems upon which the famous book, Operating Systems Design and Implementation, by Andrew S Tanenbaum and Albert S Woodhull, is based and also was the inspiration for Linux. With this latest release, version 3, MINIX aims to be a complete, stable, secure desktop operating system for everyday use. Does it live up to those claims? Read on to find out."
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You're not going to learn out to write an OS from studying the Linux source code. You might learn a lot about how commercial systems are architectured, but you're not going to be able to write one.
MINIX is a nice OS from a pedagogical point of view. It teaches the important stuff (dealing with interrupts, dealing with devices, creating threads, setting up userspace, I/O, virtual memory, etc) without obscuring the concepts with optimizations.