On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 09:25 PM, Charles Thorley wrote: > It's surprising to me that Minix 3 appears to be, by way of googling > 'site:lists.suckless.org minix', almost completely ignored by this > mailing list. This thread brought that curiosity to my attention once > again. I wonder if anyone would be willing to shed some light on this > apparent discrepancy, even if it's only to correct my misunderstanding.
Well I am a member of this mailing list, and I am very interested in Minix. I find it too immature to be "usable" at this point, but it is fascinating. For example it has very limited hardware support. I fervently hope that it does really well. I have made some very very minor contributions to the Minix wiki and I've run it in a virtual machine. Note that when it is fully mature it will be a NetBSD clone but with a very reliable and fault-tolerant core of the operating system. Speaking of NetBSD, I really like the concept of the NetBSD packaging system (pkgsrc) as one packaging system for all the Unix-like operating systems. I don't know if it's implemented in a suckless way, but I don't like all the duplication of effort of the very many packaging systems out there. These are my own opinions only. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free
