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Faessen-Goden Jean-Paul en Rowena wrote:

> Why using Minix and not Linux,or QNX,FreeBSD?
>
> Thank's;
>
> Jean-Paul Faessen

I see two main reasons to use Minix instead of Linux, *BSD or QNX:
1. You want to learn about OS. Minix is a small Operating System, well
written. It's easy to learn from, and easy to modify (and much smaller
than Linux and *BSD).
2. You need to install a small OS for an old computer (or because you
miss disk size). Minix can be install on XT and up. It take very few
places and it's stable (ELKS, the Linux equivalent is still in
development and miss many options you find in Minix). You can install a
full distribution on 40MB.





