Anyone here use MINIX 3? Are there cases for which it is production-ready?
MINIX 3
Bentley Edwards
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Carter Turner
>Are there cases for which it is production-ready?
spying on Intel users?
Caleb Martin
Good point.
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Jeremiah Davis
Didnt they get the whole netbsd ports tree running in minix? Sounds fine for production.
Tyler White
minix isnt an os. its a kernel
Ryder Brown
pkgsrc is in a horrible state
Ian Parker
What's wrong with it? It worked all right when I tried on Linux and NetBSD.
Colton Clark
>MINIX 3 is a free, open-source, operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. It is based on a tiny microkernel running in kernel mode with the rest of the operating system running as a number of isolated, protected, processes in user mode. It runs on x86 and ARM CPUs, is compatible with NetBSD, and runs thousands of NetBSD packages.
Taken from the official website.
Luis Gonzalez
>Operating System
>Operating SYSTEM
>OPERATING SYSTEM
Something Linux will never be.
Caleb Walker
Define production. I'd never use it for a prod database, web server, file server or RTOS.
Angel King
fpbp
Colton Myers
what DE is that?
Nolan Rodriguez
Does it support USB yet?
Matthew White
Intel seems to think so.
Angel Moore
Nailed it.
OP just BTFO'd Intel housefire users
Andrew Bennett
What a fucking cunt
Ethan Ross
>filename
minix3-ede.jpg
boy i sure wonder what that 'ede' thing is and why the menu icon is also 'e'
learn to read
Carson Barnes
After the Intel scandal, I think there isn't anyone who is not using Minix.
Asher Scott
being used on a management engine ;)
Camden Gonzalez
your spies are using it.
You are not.
Gabriel Bennett
wew, this reads as sarcasm, is he serious?
Jason Lopez
Older versions of the ME pre-2015 used threadx :)
Aiden Wilson
>Are there cases for which it is production-ready?
Seems it can run xterm. Apparently that is enough for everything according to some loonix/bsd/etc fags.
James Gomez
>Define production
You pretty much have.
Owen Cooper
You're better off using latest 3.4-rc than latest stable release.
Because it's been several years since a stable release, and the rc has massive progress over it.
Liam Sullivan
It can also run mmosaic and netsurf.
With 3.4, system is finally built dynamic and using netbsd headers, so compatibility is pretty high.
Important pending work in pthreads is what's blocking most software.
Leo Brown
Equinox Desktop Environment, an lightweight DE, uses the FLTK widget toolkit instead of GTK+ or Qt.
The development of this DE is pretty slow.
Elijah Richardson
>Important pending work in pthreads is what's blocking most software.
Does MINIX even have sponsors? It sounds like it needs some. I only see a link advertising a master's degree program at Tanenbaum's university.
Christopher Wood
Unfortunately no. Even tho Intel uses it, they give nothing back.
Leo Collins
>Microkernel
It literally will never be production-ready, unless you enjoy spending even more time on processor context switches.
Mason Campbell
>Even tho Intel uses it, they give nothing back.
Sebastian Edwards
>processor context switches.
Linux takes 2us.
seL4,
Anthony Smith
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Intel wouldn't even use it if GPL'd.
BSD as a license is good to maximise adoption, and the only way for some projects to stand a chance.