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From: Robert Solomon <wogsol@bestweb.net>
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> Hi!
> > Can anyone tell me what the difference between Minix and the other Linux
> > distributions is?
> >
> Red Hat, Suse and Debian are different vendors of Linux. They prepackage the
> operating system
> in CD and give you some service for money.
> Minix is for educational usage.
> 
> Try Minix dowloading it from http://www.cs.vu.nl/minix of from
> http://minix1.hampshire.edu
> 
> Regards,
> Claudio.

We should mention that the minix download is only about 8 megs.  This os
is bog enough to be really useful and small enough that a person like me
with a day job can read and understand the source.
Bob

