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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2005-07-06
Calling me a coward for no reason is getting close, but I guess I'll give you the benefit of the doubt since I know you've made good posts in the past.
*gives smitty a hug* don't mind me, I some times get pissed off sometimes *blush*, my point I was getting at was this, with the long winded rant about Iraq and hollywood, its about looking at both sides of the story; both good and bad.
I talked about Windows in my previous post because the original (first) post to my bought except to the fact that I said there were major changes; what gets my feathers riled up is when people come back quoting out of date sources, and knowing very little about the situation whilst at the same time thinking that because there is 'freedom of speech' their ideas some how hold the same credience to mine which might actually have a smidgen of reality thrown in, in reference to the changes made in Windows Vista vs. Windows XP vs. Windows 2000 which ties back to the micro-kernel argument relating to the amount of services being pushed out of the Windows kernel into userspace (or atleast a large portion of it being moved out) vs. the microkernel design of minix along with the eventual move in one form or another to push things out of the kernel that don't actually need to be in there; Linux and FUSE being a good example which could result in future file systems that are non-core necessary, being pushed out.
Edited 2007-03-02 23:44