590s Minix3 Project

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This page is dedicated to the UW CSE System Seminar's Spring 2006 examination of the Minix 3 operating system (http://www.minix3.org). Minix 3 is a microkernel operating system developed by Andy Tanenbaum. Unlike its predecessors, which were developed as teaching tools, Minix 3 is intended to also serve as a highly reliable and "secure" operating system for resource limited / embedded processors.

Try it

Minix 3 runs very well in VMWare. Download VMWare Server (it's free) from http://www.vmware.com. Then, you can get a pre-installed Minix-3 image to run in VMWare from http://www.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_1_small_vmware_256MB_1GB.zip . Andy is currently creating an image that additionally features more UNIX tools, and will post it when it is available. Minix-3 distributions seem to have all of the source code in/usr/src.

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