Minix Links Page modified: 6 Dec 2006

For MINIX 3 go to http://www.minix3.org. (Minix 3 released Oct 2005)

Minix in Classroom and Lab

There is a Teaching with Minix HowTo page here, and associated with this is a list of links to all of the Minix related course websites I have been able to find.

Minix 2, Minix 3, and this page

As mentioned elsewhere on this site, although Minix 3 was released in late 2005 and has many advances over Minix 2, the latter is still in widespread use, especially for teaching. Thus maintenance of this website will continue. The main focus is on supporting Minix 2 users, but much of the information on this site and sites linked to here may be relevant to Minix 3 as well. Some links to sites that are primarily oriented toward Minix 3 have been added. If the description of a site says Minix 3 the material there may or may not be relevant to Minix 2.

Minix 3 sites

• Andy Tanenbaum's official Minix 3 Home Page in Amsterdam: http://www.minix3.org
• Official MINIX 3 download site: http://www.minix3.org/download/
• Chris Double's MINIX 3 blog: MINIX tips
• Russian language Minix 3 site

Minix 2 sites

• Official Minix 2 distribution site, Amsterdam: http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/old-index.html
• FTP access to the Amsterdam Minix 2 site: ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix
• Minix-vmd (Kees Bot and Philip Homburg): http://www.Minix-vmd.org/
• Source code for older versions of standard Minix at the Minix-vmd site: http://www.Minix-vmd.org/source/std.
• Minix on the Net (University of Genoa): http://www.disi.unige.it/person/DoderoG/minix/minix.htm
• MacMinix (Bradley Pliner, USA): http://www.pliner.com/macminix/
• Minix for Sun Solaris (Paul Ashton, New Zealand): http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~paul/smx.html
• The Amiga MINIX Page (Minix 1.5).
• Minix.org (not much here, but included for completeness).
• Minix.net (Material of historical interest).

Minix newsgroup and mailing list archives

• Archives of comp.os.minix newsgroup (Australia): ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/minix/news
• Archives of comp.os.minix newsgroup (USA): http://groups.google.com/groups comp.os.minix
• Archives of the Minix-l mailing list (USA): http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/minix-l.html

Minix projects

• Minix under Bochs emulator: http://arch.cs.yale.edu/~bradley/cs422b-1997/.   (Possibly a dead link! Can you help?)
• Terry McConnell's public domain software for Minix: http://barnyard.syr.edu/minix.shtml
• Terry McConnell's ports of Unix tools to Minix (ftp directory): ftp://barnyard.syr.edu/pub/mcconnell/minix/
• Port of Minix HP Jornada 680/690 (Japan) http://minixsh.tripod.co.jp/index.html.   (Possibly a dead link! Can you help?)
• Port of Minix to HP200LX palmtop (USA): http://users.erols.com/rld/.   (Possibly a dead link! Can you help?)
• Another port of Minix to HP200LX palmtop: http://www.technoir.nu/hplx/minix
• Port of Minix to Compaq iPaq: http://www.cs.uno.edu/~venkata/www/index.htm.   (Possibly a dead link! Can you help?)
• Minix C68 compiler (for Motorola platforms) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/minix68k.htm (New location).
• Michael Temari's files repository: http://TemWare.Com/files/. (Not all Minix, but some of Michael's newest stuff for Minix shows up here first).
• Claudio Tantignone's site: SLIP. PPP, PLIP, NAT, other good stuff for Minix: http://www.geocities.com/ctantignone

Minix documentation

• Minix bibliography (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
• Minix boot code documentation (Andrew Swartzbaugh and Brent Johnson, new location Aug 2006))
• Minix Network Service Documentation (Christos Karayiannis and Andrew Swartzbaugh).
• Minix networking code documentation (Charlie Tsz-Hong Wong)

Some Minix people

• Andrew Tanenbaum <ast@cs.vu.nl>
• Al Woodhull <asw@woodhull.com>
• Michael Temari <Michael@TemWare.Com>
• Kees Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>
• Philip Homburg <philip@cs.vu.nl>
• Claudio Tantignone <C_Tantignone@sondaarg.com.ar>
• Jorrit Herder <jnherder@cs.vu.nl>
• Ben Gras <beng@few.vu.nl>

Other links of interest:

• Microwindows: http://microwindows.org
• RFC documents http://www.rfc-editor.org/
• Usenet FAQ archive: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/
• OSNews.com: keep up-to-date on computing developments.

Minix info in languages other than English:

• Chinese (Taiwan): http://home.kimo.com.tw/john-enter/
• Portuguese (Brazil): http://brlivre.sytes.net/minix.  (Dead link! Can you help?) ( This was formerly brlivre.quilombodigital.org/minix/. As of April 2003 an archive is accessible via the Wayback Machine Inernet Archive).
• Spanish (Argentina): http://www.dc.uba.ar/people/materias/so/html/minix.html.  (Dead link! Can you help?)
• Spanish (Mexico): http://www.homeunix.org.mx/minix/.  (Dead link! Can you help?)
• German: Howto: Minix auf XTs.  (Dead link! Can you help?)
• Dutch: Unix.pagina.nl is not particularly focussed on Minix, has info on numerous Unix flavors.
• Russian: http://www.minix3.ru/ (Russian language Minix 3 site).
• Various: The Minix 3 FAQ has been translated into a number of different languages. There are links to these in the "Other Documents" section of the Minix3.org Documentation page.

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