The read was rather fascinating, I remember being referenced to MINIX somewhere years ago when I first used Linux and I was probably researching Linus T. Have any of you used it? What do you make of it? I'd quite like to give it a try. I'm downloading it as we speak, I'm excited to see how fast this system boots up and shuts down having read the wikipedia.

Website:
http://www.minix3.org/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3KuE7UjGA

Watch that video!

I was just downloading it with youtube downloader client less than a minute ago. Freaky shit xD

It's pretty easy to set up, it's pretty limited though. I don't think I'll be using this outside virtualbox. I'm going back to OpenBSD and if I fuck that up i'll just stick with FreeBSD.

Did you set up pkgsrc?

No I just used pkgin out of the box as described on first boot.

Pkgsrc gives you access to a few neat applications on minix. I was able to run X with fluxbox a year or so ago.

I will be sure to do that, I have MINIX, OpenBSD and FreeBSD set up and updated. All in VM's as I cannot run FreeBSD 8.3+ on this HDD. I'll be buying a new one next week and I'll probably have FreeBSD or OpenBSD alongside MINIX as it seems pretty cool.

EDIT - I'm setting up pkgsrc right now.

Fun! What's are you going to run next? Haiku? Plan 9?

I had never even heard of either of those but i'll read some wiki on them now. My internet has been god awful these past few days at around 60kbps.

I know that feel :|

Shouldn't this be in the "Old school stuff" section? ;) Thanks to both of you for the MINIX info though, I wasn't aware it was still around

Minix is not old school! It's in very active development. So are Haiku and Plan 9.

Well, fuck, I thought it was ; _ ;

I knew P9 and Haiku were, just had no idea MINIX was still kickin' it! :p

I've never given Minix a go, maybe that would be a good project for me. I loved Plan 9 when I used it!

(10-07-2013, 05:46 PM)Phyrne Wrote: Well, fuck, I thought it was ; _ ;

I knew P9 and Haiku were, just had no idea MINIX was still kickin' it! :p

http://www.minix3.org/

They even have a bitching new site!

Shit son, that is bitchin'

Hey yrmt, what method did you use to set up Xorg? I can't find the package.

EDIT - Is it modular-Xorg-server?
https://github.com/minix3/pkgsrc/tree/mi...org-server

(10-07-2013, 06:16 PM)Robby Wrote: Hey yrmt, what method did you use to set up Xorg? I can't find the package.

EDIT - Is it modular-Xorg-server?
https://github.com/minix3/pkgsrc/tree/mi...org-server

Yep I think so.

Yeah I had to redo the entire thing because there was no memory left at like 90%. It takes fucking years on 60kbps to download everything. It's almost done receiving the objects from git.

(10-07-2013, 06:37 PM)Robby Wrote: Yeah I had to redo the entire thing because there was no memory left at like 90%. It takes fucking years on 60kbps to download everything. It's almost done receiving the objects from git.

Ahah you underestimated you virtualbox install!

By the way, I love your new forum avatar!

I did indeed *facepalm* but if I can get everything I need running smoothly on here then I don't see why I shouldn't use MINIX as my main OS. Thankyou ;)

You'll see the limitations pretty quick :) But it's very fun to experiment with it and I recommend you order Operating Systems by Tanenbaum it's a bit too technical for me but it's amazing.

My computer fucking crashed due to power failure so wherever it was at it's lost. I'm so fucked off right now. I haven't got any cash whatsoever so I doubt I can buy a copy, i'll probably see if it's available to download.

Microkernels are an extremely good idea. I don't care about 20% less performance, but if the thing never crashes (and this is much more likely with only ~12000 lines of code), it is what I want.

Unfortunately, the idea did not take off (due to the worse performance, I guess) and we are sitting here today with
monolithic kernels.