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You forgot -- "its fun."

Shawn

David Frydman wrote:

> 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.

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