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From: munrom@actrix.gen.nz (Mark Munro)
Subject: Re: Minix for free?
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Adam Rothschild wonders...
>>Some folks say that Minix is commercial software availible only through
>>Prentice Hall, while others say there are free/GNU distributions out
>>there.  Who is correct?

Stephen Birch wonders...
>Perhaps you are thinking of Linux?

As of June/July Minix was placed in the public domain.

>> If I can get Minix for free, where do I FTP it from?

You can find the beta version at:
  ftp.cs.vu.nl:/pub/minix/beta


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