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Robby
Long time nixers
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
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Robby
Long time nixers
I was just downloading it with youtube downloader client less than a minute ago. Freaky shit xD
Robby
Long time nixers
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.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Did you set up pkgsrc?
Robby
Long time nixers
No I just used pkgin out of the box as described on first boot.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Pkgsrc gives you access to a few neat applications on minix. I was able to run X with fluxbox a year or so ago.
Robby
Long time nixers
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.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Fun! What's are you going to run next? Haiku? Plan 9?
Robby
Long time nixers
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.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
I know that feel :|
Phyrne
Long time nixers
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
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
Minix is not old school! It's in very active development. So are Haiku and Plan 9.
Phyrne
Long time nixers
Well, fuck, I thought it was ; _ ;

I knew P9 and Haiku were, just had no idea MINIX was still kickin' it! :p
kopri
Long time nixers
I've never given Minix a go, maybe that would be a good project for me. I loved Plan 9 when I used it!
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
(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!
Phyrne
Long time nixers
Shit son, that is bitchin'
Robby
Long time nixers
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
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
(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.
Robby
Long time nixers
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.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
(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!
Robby
Long time nixers
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 ;)
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
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.
Robby
Long time nixers
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.
pranomostro
Long time nixers
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.