Where to Get Minix and Minix Info

Q: Where can I get Minix, (or information about Minix, or software for Minix)?

A: The following duplicates information available on this site in other places, and is probably not complete, but I think it will be helpful:

Obtaining the Minix Operating System

Minix 3 has been available since October 2005.

Minix 3 is available from the minix3.org site in the Netherlands.

Minix 2.0.* releases

• Minix 2.0.0 is distributed on a CD-ROM included with the text Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2nd ed., by A. S. Tanenbaum and A. S. Woodhull (Prentice-Hall, 1997). The CD-ROM includes documentation in several formats including HTML and PostScript, formatted listings (as they appear in the text) and Minix versions for SPARC, the Bochs emulator for X-Windows, etc.
• The complete Minix 2.0.0 distribution as on the CD-ROM (released December 1996), as well as the later 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 releases can be found online at ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix.

The Minix 2.0.0 distribution for Intel platforms only can be found here:

• Al Woodhull's minix1.* sites (some PostScript documentation omitted).
• ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/minix/2.0.0/ (includes all documentation, PostScript as well as text).

There have been enhancements to Minix since the publication of the book and the release of Minix 2.0.0.

• Minix 2.0.2 was released in December 1998
• Minix 2.0.3 was released in May 2001.
• Minix 2.0.4 was released in November 2003. Kees Bot calls this a "mid development expert-only snapshot." Please read the announcement of Minix 2.0.4 for an explanation.

Newer releases are available at these sites:

• ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix: All versions.
• Al Woodhull's minix1.* sites: All versions.
• ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/minix/: 2.0.0 and 2.0.2 only.

Older versions of Minix are also available on the net:

• Minix 1.5 for MacIntosh and other systems not yet upgraded to version 2.0 is at ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix.
• Archives of standard Minix for Intel platforms, versions from 1.5 through 1.7 can be found at: ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/old/.
• Archives of older standard Minix versions from version 1.1 can be found at: ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/minix/

Minix-vmd, a customized version of 32-bit Minix supporting virtual memory and the X-Window system, is available at:

• http://www.Minix-vmd.org/
• ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/minix/Minix-vmd/ (Australian mirror site)

Contributed software for Minix 2.0.0 and experimental add-ons can be found at:

• ftp://minix1.hampshire.edu/pub/ and ftp://minix1.bio.umass.edu/pub/. (Includes some old contributed software for Minix 1.5)
• Browse /pub/contrib text file descriptions of contributed packages on Minix1.

There are also archives of the mailing list and the newsgroup:

Go to the Minix archives page on this site for more information

Q: How about Minix documentation?

A: There is a Minix documentation section on the Hints/FAQ page.

Q: Are there other Minix web or ftp sites?

A: Check out this site's LINKS page, listed below. And let me know if you learn of others that I should add to the list.

Q: How about non-English language sites?

A: I have listed a few such sites in the translations of Minix info section of the LINKS page. I suspect there are more, and I will add them when I hear of them.