Path: utzoo!utdoe!torag!zooid!dve
From: dve@zooid.uucp (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent vs. MINIX
Message-ID: <5713.676684671@zooid.uucp>
Date: 11 Jun 91 19:57:53 EDT

From: jochenw@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Jochen Wolters)
>  I am planning on buying one of the packages mentioned and was even pretty su
>MINIX would be the one. But after reading through the contents list I wasn't s
>anymore. As far as I can judge, Coherent might be the system of choice for tho
>just want to "use" it, but who are not interested in modifying the system itse
 
I think that's a pretty good summary. Minix has more support from
many people out there but you might spend more time trying to get
the thing running than actually using it. Whereas Coherent runs
pretty well but it doesn't come with source code like Minix.

After a period of time playing with Minix you'll have a deeper
understanding of the internals of a Unix-like operating system.
After a period of time with Coherent you'll have spent more time
playing with Unix-like applications and the system utilities.