[NTLUG:Discuss] MFS launched

[Steve Baker]

Will Senn wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have launched a new project - it's an infant, so no flames about a 
> lack of deep content - MFS, Minix from Scratch. Read the /. newsbit at:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/22/2250255&mode=flat&tid=130&tid=185&tid=190 

Yeah - I saw that on /. - very cool!

I have fond memories of Minix on my Atari ST...UNIX on a single floppy!
(and we *aren't* talking a 1.44Mb floppy either).

Minix's minute size combined with all of the power of modern GNU and Linux
applications would make for an interesting teeny-tiny distro.  Maybe it
would be good for applications like PDA's, cellphones and watches.

What is the current license conditions on Minix?  It wasn't what we would
now describe as "OpenSourced" back in my AtariST days.  You got the sources
but with some restrictions.

> For those purist mailing list junkies out there - it's Linux related :) 
> or haven't you been following the Brown-Tanenbaum-Torvalds controversy?

Yeah - it's good to see Tannenbaum and Linus on the same side for once!

MicroKernels *rule*!!

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