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In article <3A5B20BC.A0C6C40F@maxis.net.my>,
maher abedib  <m2600@maxis.net.my> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to find out from A - Z about minix.Is there any websites or
>documentation/FAQ/manual regarding minix?

What sort of information do you want?  It'll take a very long time to know
everything that there is to possibly know about Minix--granted, less time
than Linux, Windows, BeOS, or MacOS, but still a very long time.

Probably the best website is minix1.hampshire.edu, also mirrored at
turing.oit.umass.edu as well.  This is maintained by Al Woodhull, one of the
Really Good Guys for Minix.  This site has a bunch of tips, pointers to
other sites, useful software to download, and the like.

The book on Minix is _Operating_Systems:_Design_and_Implementation_, by
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a popular operating systems textbook.  Minix was
developed to accompany this book by Dr. Tanenbaum, and the book largely
consists of a description and discussion of Minix.  (That is, of the core of
the operating system--the UNIX utilities which are a part of the Minix
distribution receive practically no discussion.)

User programs are probably best documented by the man pages, or (failing
that) by figuring out the source code or asking someone more knowlegable. 
Help with accomplishing actual work on Minix is probably best found in a
general book on UNIX, preferably a somewhat dated one which doesn't assume
you have X, etc.; Harley Hahn's _A_Student's_guide_to_UNIX_ is what RIT's CS
department used six years ago and is pretty good, although there are a great
many other equally good (or perhaps superior) tomes.

-- 
Andrew Erickson
