Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!relay.nswc.navy.mil!oasys!mimsy!nocusuhs!nmrdc1!minixug!uwalt!waltje From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: nice for Minix? Message-ID: <910416742@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> Date: 16 Apr 91 03:15:32 GMT References: <1991Apr5.160335.5422@cbnewsj.att.com> Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development Lines: 51 nhc@cbnewsj.att.com (n.h.chandler) wrote: > In article , go@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Gary Oliver) writes: >> waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) writes: >> >> >Yes, I completely agree with you. I added the "kub-scheduler" to Advanced >> >MINIX, and it worked GREAT! Thanks, Kai-Uwe! >> >> Gary Oliver >> go@jacobs.cs.orst.edu > > Am I missing something here? What is "Advanced MINIX"??? > > Neville Chandler > nhc@cbnewsj.att.com Aiii... here we go again... :-( Because MINIX was intended as a "simple OS that even a second-year student could understand", MINIX lacks some of the things (read: features) that are nice (actually: needed) when people start _using_ MINIX. After a long and hard battle (:-) with Andy, we at NLMUG decided it was time for a version of MINIX that was not necessarily supported by Andy (i.e.: we had to apply all future patches ourselves, and do our own research on top of that), but which was more _usable_ on the real world. A beautiful example of such a system are the machines I have here (the "minixug" one, which serves a complete network, and the *.uwalt.nl.mugnet machines, which server me and the "minixug" system in development, research and such..). They all run this special MINIX. Well now. The current Advanced MINIX is based on 1.5.10, with lots of "net" patches applied (like VC, KeyStailey's SymLinks, Extended Cache, my serial driver, my boot loader, my MM extensions, our patches to the SymLink kit which makes it really standard) and some of the stuff available from archives (we use BCC as the standard compiler, we have Estdio as the standard lib, Advanced MINIX is now fully merged with Bruce's MINIX/386, etc...). All in all: a large system, with lots of features to make it really usable. The current version (1.5.10E12-PC/286) even includes my DynaLink feature (dynamic linkage of servers at boot time) and the rewrite of INIT. Also, it contains the latest versions of my UUCP, U-MAIL, W-MAIL and W-NEWS packages installed. The current distribution on PC diskettes counts, uhh,lets see... 43 diskettes. Quite large... :-) In the near future we will be supporting the MGR package as well. Hope this helps a bit, Fred N. van Kempen