Hello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and
I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
Desde entonces se dio inicio al proyecto de Software Libre más grande jamás conocido: El núcleo Linux, alma de todas las distribuciones GNU/Linux que conocemos hasta la fecha.
En la actualidad el uso de GNU/Linux se ha extendido desde los servidores, supercomputadoras, sistemas críticos y hackers, hasta usuarios domésticos; quienes hoy disfrutan de un escritorio estable y con una amplia gama de aplicaciones que no tienen nada que envidiarle a los sistemas tradicionales propietarios.