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Unix-like operating system
MINIX is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture, first released in 1987 and written by American-Dutch computer scientist Andrew
Minix
Unix-like operating system
Minix 3 is a small, Unix-like operating system published under a BSD-3-Clause license, and is a successor project to the earlier versions, Minix 1.x and
Minix_3
Family of Unix-like operating systems
calls from Tanenbaum's Minix text. Torvalds began the development of the Linux kernel on Minix and applications written for Minix were also used on Linux
Linux
American basketball player (born 2000)
Riley James Minix (born September 22, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association
Riley_Minix
1990s debate regarding the Linux kernel
architecture in general. Tanenbaum, the creator of Minix, began the debate in Usenet discussion group comp.os.minix, arguing that microkernels are superior to
Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate
American-Dutch computer scientist (born 1944)
the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and has written
Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
announced this system in another posting to the comp.os.minix newsgroup: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby
History_of_Linux
Native file system of the Minix operating system
The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed to replicate
MINIX_file_system
Operating system
Hardware environment Lacks (vs others) Minix 1 ~12k Microkernel C x86-16 ? Minix 2 ~23k Microkernel C x86-32 ? Minix 3 ~100k+ Microkernel C x86-32 —N/a Nachos
Xinu
Operating system that behaves similarly to Unix
systems often have Unix-like names such as AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix, and XNU. These patterns do not literally match many system
Unix-like
Free Unix-like operating system kernel
Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX, and Torvalds. The Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate started in 1992 on the Usenet group comp.os.minix as a general discussion about
Linux_kernel
Finnish and American software engineer (born 1969)
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, in which Tanenbaum describes MINIX, an educational stripped-down version of Unix. On 5 January 1991 he purchased
Linus_Torvalds
Modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix
covered in a semester (especially compared to Minix or Pintos), by kernel type (xv6 monolithic vs Minix microkernel vs Nachos user-space simulated), and
Xv6
Computer science textbook
three editions also included loadable disks with MINIX: 1987 ed. MINIX 1.0 1997 ed. MINIX 2.0 2006 ed. MINIX 3.1.0 History of Linux Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
Operating_Systems:_Design_and_Implementation
Controversial book on open-source software
states that the Linux kernel was written using copied source code from Minix and other resources acquired improperly or possibly illegally by Linus Torvalds
Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
Samizdat:_And_Other_Issues_Regarding_the_'Source'_of_Open_Source_Code
Software that manages computer hardware resources
programming interfaces (APIs), which is supported by most UNIX systems. MINIX was a stripped-down version of UNIX, developed in 1987 for educational uses
Operating_system
File system for the Linux kernel
implementations (of varying quality and completeness) exist in GNU Hurd, MINIX 3, some BSD kernels, in MiNT, Haiku and as third-party Microsoft Windows
Ext2
Keyboard-oriented text editor
one of these two editors to be the vi clone in Minix; Elvis was chosen, and remains the vi clone for Minix today. In 1989, Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz
Vi_(text_editor)
Family of IEEE standards for compatibility between operating systems
DragonFly BSD FreeBSD Haiku illumos Linux (most distributions) LynxOS Minix (since 2005 Minix 3) MPE/iX NetBSD Nucleus RTOS NuttX OpenBSD OpenSolaris PikeOS
POSIX
Kernel that provides fewer services than a traditional kernel
Microkernels often have less source code than monolithic kernels. The MINIX 3 microkernel, for example, has only approximately 12,000 lines of code
Microkernel
Indiana man wrongfully convicted of rape
Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander
Richard Alexander (exonerated convict)
Richard_Alexander_(exonerated_convict)
Environment in which a piece of software is executed
BSD System V HP-UX IBM AIX A/UX Solaris OpenSolaris illumos OpenIndiana MINIX GNU Hurd Linux Android ChromeOS QubesOS OSF/1 Tru64 UNIX z/OS VM OpenVMS
Computing_platform
Virtualization module in the Linux kernel
even other Linux systems. In addition, Android 2.2, GNU/Hurd (Debian K16), Minix 3.1.2a, Solaris 10 U3 and Darwin 8.0.1, together with other operating systems
Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
Operative System
Hardware environment Lacks (vs others) Minix 1 ~12k Microkernel C x86-16 ? Minix 2 ~23k Microkernel C x86-32 ? Minix 3 ~100k+ Microkernel C x86-32 —N/a Nachos
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System
Not_Another_Completely_Heuristic_Operating_System
Linux distribution
MS-DOS and Windows), NTFS (used in Windows NT, 2000, and XP) and Minix (used by the Minix operating system). Windows NT and most later versions of Windows
Tomsrtbt
Linux file system
principles, and was designed by Rémy Card to overcome certain limitations of the MINIX file system. It was the first implementation that used the virtual file
Extended_file_system
Free and open-source Unix-like operating system
packages and has been adopted by other operating systems including SmartOS and Minix 3. The operating system is developed by the NetBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3)
NetBSD
task-isolation mode for the kernel Supports ELF since version 3.2.0 "MinixReleases". Minix Wiki. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 21 May
Comparison of operating system kernels
Comparison_of_operating_system_kernels
Operating systems based on GNU
efforts to port Debian to run on the Minix 3 kernel called the Preventa Project, thus forming an unofficial Debian GNU/Minix similar to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
GNU_variants
Major class of newsgroups in Usenet
programming language comp.os.linux.misc Linux operating system comp.os.minix Minix operating system comp.programming Miscellaneous discussion of programming
Comp.*_hierarchy
File system for the Linux kernel
on the MINIX file system. Today it is obsolete and not in use, except possibly in some historic installations. Linux originally used the MINIX file system
Xiafs
Simple instructional operating system
Hardware environment Lacks (vs others) Minix 1 ~12k Microkernel C x86-16 ? Minix 2 ~23k Microkernel C x86-32 ? Minix 3 ~100k+ Microkernel C x86-32 —N/a Nachos
Pintos
Package manager for Unix-like operating systems
open-source software. It is the native package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and MINIX 3, and is portable across 23 different operating systems, including AIX
Pkgsrc
Microkernel OS written in Rust
performance. It is inspired by prior kernels and operating systems, such as SeL4, MINIX, Plan 9, BSD, and Linux. Current platform targets include 32-bit and 64-bit
RedoxOS
Free software project
Torvalds (August 26, 1991). "What would you like to see most in minix?". comp.os.minix. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved July 28
GNU_Project
78th edition of the NBA draft
Netherlands Bradley (Sr.) Emanuel Miller SF/PF Canada TCU (Sr.) Riley Minix SF/SG United States Morehead State (Sr.) Josh Oduro PF/C United States
2024_NBA_draft
American conservative think tank
Brown to find similarities between Minix and Linux 0.01 source code, and found no support for the theory that Minix source code had been used to create
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution
American band
Beatson, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Gill Gonzalez, bassist Chuck Minix, and drummer Tyler Washington. The band released their first album No Funeral
Foreign_Hands
Lightweight Unix shell
shell (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, MINIX, and in some Linux distributions. MINIX 3.2 used the original ash version, whose test feature
Almquist_shell
Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Minix, illumos, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Microsoft Windows is capable
Comparison of X Window System desktop environments
Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments
Type of operating system kernel
"dynamic tick mode" (aka tickless). As of 2020, there is a plan to add this to MINIX 3 in the medium term. Bright, Peter (October 28, 2012). "Better on the inside:
Tickless_kernel
Collection of Unix commands in a single executable file
fdformat fdisk find findfs flash_lock flash_unlock fold free freeramdisk fsck.minix fsck fsync ftpd ftpget ftpput fuser getopt getty grep — Search for PATTERN
BusyBox
IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version) Mac OS (System 4) Mac OS (System 5) MDOS MINIX 1.0 OS/2 (1.0) PC-MOS/386 Topaz – semi-distributed OS for DEC Firefly workstation
Timeline_of_operating_systems
Standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps
(except for 32-bit PA-RISC programs which continue to use SOM) QNX Neutrino MINIX ELF has also seen some adoption in non-Unix operating systems, such as:
Executable and Linkable Format
Executable_and_Linkable_Format
Family of computer operating systems
OpenSolaris Illumos Tru64 UNIX UnixWare Other Coherent Domain/OS GNU Hurd LynxOS Minix MOS OSF/1 QNX BlackBerry 10 Research Unix SerenityOS Xenix more... Compatibility
Unix
Package of Linux utilities from the Linux Kernel Organization
fallocate fdformat fdisk fincore findfs findmnt flock fsck fsck.cramfs fsck.minix fsfreeze fstrim getino getopt hardlink hexdump hwclock ionice ipcmk ipcrm
Util-linux
Annual award for developing an influential software system
computer science awards "Software System Award Goes to Andrew S. Tanenbaum for MINIX". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24. "ACM honors Adobe". Computerworld
ACM_Software_System_Award
Compiler front-end
Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018. "Official Minix 3 website: News". Archived from the original on December 17, 2009. Retrieved
Clang
Operating system
Tinix (Try It as miNIX-like operating system), is a tutorial operating system (OS) written by Yu Yuan. Designed primarily to teach fundamentals rather
Tinix
GNU replacement for the Bourne shell
(26 August 1991). "What would you like to see most in Minix?". google.com. Newsgroup: comp.os.minix. Retrieved 8 August 2025. To make things really clear
Bash_(Unix_shell)
Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2011. "MINIX 3 Hardware Requirements". MINIX3.org. Retrieved 6 December 2014. "Haiku
Comparison of open-source operating systems
Comparison_of_open-source_operating_systems
Software interface for Unix-like systems
available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (as puffs), OpenSolaris, Minix 3, macOS, MorphOS (as filesysbox.library), and Windows. FUSE is free software
Filesystem_in_Userspace
American fabless semiconductor company
"Tronsmart Vega S89 available on Amazon". Amazon. Retrieved 2014-06-14. "MINIX NEO X8-H Plus Supports H.265 4K UHD Video, Gigabit Ethernet with Amlogic
Amlogic
Microprocessor model
protected mode of the 286 were Microsoft Xenix (around 1984), Coherent, and Minix. These were less hindered by the limitations of the 80286 protected mode
Intel_80286
their input, or the set of supported targets is very limited. ^ Part of the MINIX 3 source tree, but without obvious development activity. ^ Developed by
Comparison_of_assemblers
Standards for operating systems for using the UNIX trademark
and vendors of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and MINIX typically do not certify their distributions and do not install full POSIX
Single_UNIX_Specification
Autonomous computer subsystem
CPUs), it is based on the Intel Quark x86-based 32-bit CPU and runs the MINIX 3 operating system. The ME firmware is stored in a partition of the SPI
Intel_Management_Engine
Personal digital assistant manufactured by Hewlett-Packard
hard disk. Drivers have been partially written for this purpose (to boot MINIX 2.0). The HP 200LX was used on board the NASA Discovery OV103 Mission STS-95
HP_200LX
multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andrew Morton
Applix_1616
1996 window manager software
Asveikau) so this window manager can be compile-install to Linux (BSDs, Minix, etc.) through "configure, make, install" method (or any method similar
Qvwm
System information shell tool
system Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows, iOS, Android, GNU Hurd, Haiku, IRIX, MINIX, Solaris Size 277 KB Available in English Type Benchmark License MIT License
Neofetch
Amsterdam. It is MINIX's native toolchain. The ACK was originally closed-source software (that allowed binaries to be distributed for MINIX as a special case)
List of Dutch inventions and innovations
List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_innovations
Kind of legal entity under Dutch corporate law
Mars One – purpose: establish a permanent human colony on Mars. MINIX 3 – Stichting MINIX Research Foundation - purpose: Support and develop Minix3 Operating
Stichting
Operating system designed to operate on multiple systems over a network computer
System The Cronus distributed operating system Design and development of MINIX distributed operating system Scale and performance in the Denali isolation
Distributed_operating_system
Command used to format with file system
for ext2 file systems, mkfs.msdos for FAT/VFAT file systems, mkfs.minix for the Minix file system, etc. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and macOS
Mkfs
2025–26 NBA season by team
Merrill 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1996-05-15 Utah State F 12 Riley Minix (TW) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 2000-09-22 Morehead State G 45 Donovan
2025–26 Cleveland Cavaliers season
2025–26_Cleveland_Cavaliers_season
1990s small battery-powered computer
operating systems such as GEOS, Windows 1.0-3.0 (in Real mode only), or MINIX 2.0. Most Palmtop PCs have been based on a static hardware design for low
Palmtop_PC
Symbol "#!", used in computing
binaries using wine) another script starting with a shebang On Linux and Minix, an interpreter can also be a script. A chain of shebangs and wrappers yields
Shebang_(Unix)
Retargetable charger suite
The ACK was known as MINIX's native compiler toolchain until the MINIX userland was largely replaced by that of NetBSD (MINIX 3.2.0) and Clang was adopted
Amsterdam_Compiler_Kit
Amoeba BSD Coherent Darwin DEMOS DNIX Domain/OS DYNIX GNU Hurd Linux LynxOS MINIX MNOS MOS NeXTSTEP QNX Redox RISC iX SOX SunOS SerenityOS Ultrix uNETix Research
List_of_Unix_systems
NBA professional basketball team season
McLaughlin 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1996-04-09 USC G/F 27 Riley Minix (TW) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 2000-09-22 Morehead State G 3 Chris
2024–25 San Antonio Spurs season
2024–25_San_Antonio_Spurs_season
American basketball player (born 1999)
Morant 2020: T. Taylor 2021: T. Taylor 2022: K. Williams 2023: Freeman 2024: Minix 2025: R. Taylor 2026: Nkrumah v t e Lute Olson Award winners 2010: Collins
Ja_Morant
operating system that would address the problems of MINIX. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). Originally, however, Linus had planned to have
List of computer term etymologies
List_of_computer_term_etymologies
Worldwide computer-based distributed discussion system
2007. Torvalds, Linus. "What would you like to see most in minix?". Newsgroup: comp.os.minix. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived
Usenet
Family of RISC-based computer architectures
FreeBSD FreeRTOS INTEGRITY Linux Micro-Controller Operating Systems Mbed MINIX 3 MQX Nucleus PLUS NuttX OKL4 Operating System Embedded (OSE) OS-9 Pharos
Arm_architecture_family
Name list
English actor Riley Milne (born 1990), Australian rules footballer Riley Minix (born 2000), American basketball player Riley Montana (born 1990), American
Riley_(given_name)
Implementation of NTFS file system
OpenSolaris, illumos, BeOS, QNX, WinCE, Nucleus, VxWorks, Haiku, MorphOS, Minix, macOS and OpenBSD. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License
NTFS-3G
American musician (born 1988)
(Independent, 2020) Ingrid Lucia – Wanderlust (Independent, 2020) Dominic Minix – Try Again (Independent, 2020) Irma Thomas – Love is the Foundation (Newvelle
Kyle_Roussel
Compression shell command based on the LZW compression algorithm
installed from a separate package. compress is available for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MINIX, Solaris and AIX. compress is allowed for Point-to-Point Protocol in RFC 1977
Compress_(software)
Way for programs to access kernel services
Philip Homburg, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modular system programming on Minix 3, ;login: 31, no. 2 (April 2006); 19–28, accessed 5 March 2018 Gulbrandsen
System_call
Single board computer
computer. The OMAP3530 includes an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU (which can run Linux, Minix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RISC OS, or Symbian; a number of unofficial Android ports
BeagleBoard
Typesetting language
emulating the AT&T version, widely used by Unix-like operating systems. The Minix operating system, among others, uses a clone of nroff called cawf by Vic
Nroff
Core of a computer operating system
user space, like user processes do, mainly for resilience and modularity. MINIX 3 is a notable example of microkernel design. Some kernels, such as the
Kernel_(operating_system)
Topics referred to by the same term
(operating system), a Unix-like simulator on SPARC, the "SunOS/Solaris MINIX" SMX Convention Center (company), an events venue management company in
SMX
Computer memory management scheme
the original on 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2010-10-28. Bill Buzbee. "Magic-1 Minix Demand Paging Design". Archived from the original on 2013-06-05. Retrieved
Memory_paging
from the original on 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2018-03-28. "What products does MiniX show us in 2013? New Quad Core Model Neo X7 and X5+ Coming! - Geek Gadgets"
List_of_Rockchip_products
MS-DOS 3.1/3.2 FAT16B Compaq 1987 Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 Minix V1 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1987 MINIX 1.0 Amiga FFS Commodore 1988 Amiga OS 1.3 ISO 9660:1988
Comparison_of_file_systems
Layer of protection in computer systems
Oakland, CA. pp. 166–179. hdl:10945/7198. Ivan Kelly (8 May 2006). "Porting MINIX to Xen" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2006. Paul
Protection_ring
have soft block size of 1024 or greater. At least ext2, ext3, reiserfs and minix have such property. This attack makes it possible to detect presence of
Cryptoloop
Table inside a master boot record
File system Andrew Tanenbaum Minix 1.1-1.4a MINIX file system (old) 81h File system Andrew Tanenbaum Minix 1.4b+ MINIX file system (corresponds with
Partition_type
Merrill 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1996-05-15 Utah State F 12 Riley Minix (TW) 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 2000-09-22 Morehead State G 45 Donovan
List of current NBA Eastern Conference team rosters
List_of_current_NBA_Eastern_Conference_team_rosters
Operating system
vendor, Commodore, went out of business. Unix-like operating systems such as Minix, NetBSD, and Linux are available for the Amiga platform. Unsubstantiated
Amiga_Unix
Open source window manager for the X11 system
BSD derivatives, such as DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD Linux MINIX Solaris "Fluxbox 1.3.7 - Bam! Zero Bugs!!11!". 8 February 2015. Archived
Fluxbox
NBA professional basketball team season
1.0 6.5 Jordan McLaughlin 44 0 6.4 .418 .425 .857 .7 .9 .5 .0 2.0 Riley Minix† 3 0 2.7 .667 .333 .7 .3 .3 .0 3.0 Kelly Olynyk 42 0 8.6 .490 .255 .711
2025–26 San Antonio Spurs season
2025–26_San_Antonio_Spurs_season
American basketball player (born 2002)
Retrieved December 7, 2025. "Spurs are-Sign Harrison Ingram And Riley Minix To Two-Way Contracts". gleague.nba.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025. Riddle
Harrison_Ingram
Complete, bootable computer installation that runs directly from a CD-ROM
Windows installation and repair discs, OS/2, ReactOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MINIX 3, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, MorphOS, OpenSolaris, BeleniX and others based
Live_CD
Public high school in Vero Beach, Florida, United States
football player Muni Long, Grammy-winning R&B artist YNW Melly, rapper Riley Minix, basketball player Alison Mosshart, singer and songwriter, bands The Kills
Vero_Beach_High_School
Unix operating system clone
newsletter was more positive, favorably comparing Coherent to MKS Toolkit, Minix and Xenix, and suggesting it might fill a niche as a low-end training platform
Coherent_(operating_system)
corporations Unix (a popular USA electronics maker at the time)[citation needed] MINIX (study OS developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the Netherlands) Berkeley
List_of_operating_systems
American basketball player
Bradds 2017: Bradds 2018: Stark 2019: Morant 2020: T. Taylor 2021: T. Taylor 2022: K. Williams 2023: Freeman 2024: Minix 2025: R. Taylor 2026: Nkrumah
Fly_Williams
MINIX
MINIX
MINIX
MINIX
Boy/Male
British, Czech, Hindu, Indian
New Generation
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Shiva, One who wears cobra
Boy/Male
Indian
Universe
Boy/Male
Anglo, British, English, French
Dweller by the Dark Stream; Court-dweller; From the Court
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Imegination; Pure
Girl/Female
Australian, Latin, Scottish
Laurel Tree; Sweet Bay Tree; Symbols of Honor and Victory; Serves Lawrence; Sorrowful; Crowned with Laurels
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Christian, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Sikh
A Healer; A Healing; The Lord is Salvation; To Heal
Girl/Female
English
Warm.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Servant of the glorious one.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Chinese, Finnish, French, Latin, Portuguese, Swedish
Ancient; Primitive; Venerable
MINIX
MINIX
MINIX
MINIX
MINIX