Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix Project
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From: Mark Gray <markgray@iago.nac.net>
Cc: "Mark Moesker" <moesker@ts.slctech.org>
Date: 13 Jun 2000 06:18:25 -0400
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"Mark Moesker" <moesker@ts.slctech.org> writes:

> Hi,
> I'm in my 2nd year of a Microcomputer Engineering Technology college program
> in Cornwall, Canada. As part of my course I am required to do a major
> computer related project. It will be due roughly a 1 1/2 from now. Therefore
> I am starting to think about what I would like to do. I am very interested
> in doing something involving Minix. I was wondering if anyone had some ideas
> about what I could do or maybe what some of you have done in the past for a
> college course. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

First off -- before committing yourself to any project, take a course
on the minix kernel (or carefully read the book on your own) if you
have not already done so, because a lot of good sounding suggestions
are likely to require major unforeseen enhancements to the kernel and
libraries.

That said, I think that the most useful OS project I can see is to
introduce multiple filesystem types to the kernel and port either the
Linux ext2 file system or the .*BSD Fast File System to minix (I find
short file names to be real annoying after using Linux for so long.)

