Minix Team

A new MINIX 3.1.4 snapshot (r4817) has been released. This snapshot fixes several issues related to running MINIX on virtualized hardware. See the announcement thread for more info. The ISO can be found on our download page.

Roman Ignatov submits some lovely minix3 desktop wallpapers done by his wife, Julia Ignatova! Take a look here: minix3 wallpapers. Enjoy, and thanks Julia!

In preparation for the next official release, a snapshot of 4203 has been put up on the download page. See the announcement thread for the 'release' announcement, and for further updates. Please try it out and enjoy :)

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Minix has a twitter account! Follow me at @minix3!

The old newsgroup was getting too much spam, unfortunately, so we moved to a new Google group: groups.google.com/group/minix3 Please go there and sign in. You don't have to be signed in to read the group but you do have to be signed in to post, in

Four new students have joined the project as follows: Maurits Dijkstra is working on porting MINIX 3 to the ARM Anton Kuijsten is looking at tools to locate bugs Michael Krekola is working on real time Pambo Paschalides is working on improving documentation

Andy Tanenbaum has received an Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euro from the European Research Council to work on a project entitled "Research on Really Reliable and Secure Systems Software." The grant means that work on further developing MINIX 3 will continue to have funding for at

A new programmer, Arun Thomas, has joined the project. He is working on porting the current version of X to MINIX 3 so we will support modern video cards.

The newsgroup, comp.os.minix, is full of spam at the moment. As practically all spam originates from google groups at the moment, it is recommended that as a solution for the short term, people don't post from google groups, and readers filter posts from google groups out.

Some interesting new ports: netpbm, psutils, groff, and gnupg.

New ports: pce, mdf2iso, pstotext, catdoc, lesstif. Two Minix wallpapers: minix1.jpg and minix2.jpg. Thanks to Roman Ignatov for these wallpapers.

MPlayer 1.0 rc1 is available.

LaTeX is available from the tetex distribution tetex-3.0.

Added the port done of lpr for MINIX 2 to packages.

Driver for Orinoco wireless network cards A driver for wireless PCI cards with the Prism chipset from Intersil by Michael Valkering and Stevens LeBlond has been committed.

From the website, SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.. Also Apache has been updated with compiled-in php5 module.

Incremental release of 3.1.3 A minor extra release of 3.1.3 was done, called 3.1.3a, correcting some flaws in 3.1.3. More information is in the release notes.

The following interesting new ports have been added recently. Tcl/Tk. PHP (working, with Apache as a separate CGI, but probably not final). ATK. libxml. jikes.

As of today we're building weekly snapshots of MINIX. See http://derelict.cs.vu.nl/. This interface will probably get a bit fancier.

An early preview of the next version has been released under version number 3.1.3, an interim release intended for developers who want to see the bleeding edge of MINIX and perhaps then track the current source. For more information, see the 3.1.3 release notes and the