Report on Linux origins falls at the starting gate
News Linux creator Linux Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum, the man who created Minix for the study of operating systems and software at Vrije University in Amsterdam, may have had their differences in the past, but they seem to be in agreement about the...
[May 20, 2004, 13:40]
Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story
Talkback Linus never admitted to modifying Minix. Minix and Linux are fundamentally different OS's. Linux is as much a product of Minix as all of your articles are a product of the windoze operating system you wrote your news articles on (or other OS as may...
[July 3, 2004, 0:56]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback The creator of the Minix OS (Andrew Tanenbaum) would definately agree that Windows' kernel windowing system is a horrible idea from a security and stability standpoint. This article tries to say that kernel windowing is the best thing since sliced...
[July 2, 2004, 22:34]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback Meanwhile Linux, noted Russinovich, owes a great deal to the work of Andrew Tanenbaum, who created the Unix-like Minix operating system for educational purposes. Although Linux creator Linux Torvalds readily admits that he based his work on Minix...
[July 1, 2004, 23:25]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
News Meanwhile Linux, noted Russinovich, owes a great deal to the work of Andrew Tanenbaum, who created the Unix-like Minix operating system for educational purposes. Although Linux creator Linux Torvalds has never denied that he drew inspiration from...
[July 1, 2004, 15:05]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback Linux and Minix have no technical overlap at all he clearly has no understanding of Molnar's work on the Linux kernel (and quotes him out of context) he presents the fact that Windows handles its windowing in-kernel as if it's a good thing when in...
[July 2, 2004, 1:14]
Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story
News On this PC Torvalds wrote his first terminal emulation program to address shortcomings in the Unix variant operating system, Minix. For instance, the first to have his hackles raised by Torvalds was Minix operating system author Andrew Tanenbaum...
[April 10, 2001, 7:40]
Reorganizing UNIX for Reliability
White Papers This paper discusses the architecture of a modular UNIX-compatible operating system, MINIX 3, that provides reliability beyond that of most other systems. With nearly the entire operating system running as a set of user-mode servers and drivers...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
MacZip
Downloads MacZip can compress files for the following systems: Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. MacZip is a free tool that includes both zip (for compression) and unzip (for extraction) capabilities.
[March 7, 2001, 0:08]
Linux: From geek tech to corporate tool
News I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones," Torvalds wrote in an email to a discussion group that focused on the Unix variant Minix.
[August 15, 2001, 9:41]
Admission and Lesson - Don't Overcomplicate Linux!
Blog Comment Good heavens, I remember trying "Minix" when Tanenbaum's book came out - talk about scary! That's another good point, which I have mentioned to others several times. Unlike Windows, Linux is not a self-corrupting / self destroying operating system...
[July 18, 2008, 17:11]
Linux kernel 2.6 heads for final testing
Talkback Linus Torvalds began writing what became the Linux kernel because he couldn't afford Unix and was less than pleased by the performance and features of the POSIX-compliant Minix OS he was using at Helsinki University.
[November 28, 2003, 4:58]
Mostly right, with critical exceptions
Talkback Likewise, I have tried so many versions of Linux (and Minix, if anyone remembers what that was), and could never get one to work properly and provide the things that I need on my laptops. First, I agree with most of what you say about standards in...
[April 15, 2008, 15:59]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
Talkback Brooks of the De Toqueville Foundation, who seems to be saying that algorythms which may be under academic copyright, such as those used in Minix, should be treated as commercial proprietary information, if I understand him correctly.
[April 8, 2005, 16:20]
Why choose Linux for development?
News Finally, Linux was originally created as one developer's project, in reaction to MINIX, the first open source operating system. The open source community continues to grow in numbers, and many major vendors recognise the movement's strength.
[September 10, 2002, 10:19]
It's All About the Tools
Blog As I have been telling people for over 25 years, we can argue about operating systems until the cows come home, whether it is Unix, Linux, Minix, VMS, RSTS/E, CP/M, DOS, Windows or whatever else. Yesterday I was working with some PDF documents, and...
[June 26, 2009, 9:29]
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows?
Talkback Minix is a microkernel operating system, while most everything else including Linux is monolithic. This doesn't make any sense. Even though Russinovich is an NT expert, he has no clue about the architecture of Unix operating systems.
[July 2, 2004, 22:23]
