Minix Team

The MINIX book is now available. Amazon.com and other bookstores have it in stock. Here is a link to it at amazon.com.

We reached another milestone today: the CD-ROM image containing MINIX 3 has now been downloaded 75,000 times.

The GNU POSIX test suite is now available. To install and run it, type easypack opts-1.5.1 opts

Three new beta packages have been put on the SOFTWARE page: fb, less-3.8.5, and wget-1.5.3

Openssl-0.9.8a is now available as a beta package for testing. Use easypack to get it or download it from the SOFTWARE page. There is also a program to rip files from the CD image there.

The GNU gmake is now available for beta testing. It is on the SOFTWARE page and can be fetched and installed using easypack. With gmake and gcc now available, a large amount of software should be much easier to port.

Some new beta packages are now available. Here is the current list. dungeon-2.7.1 - text-based dungeon exploration game (224 KB) pdksh-5.2.14 - a public domain korn shell (408 KB) unzip-5.52 - tool for unzipping .zip archive files (880 KB) zip-2.31 - tool for creating

We have now passed 50,000 downloads of the MINIX 3 CD-ROM image file. As of today, it has been downloaded over 52,000 times.

The gcc package didn't contain the binaries, so it was not so useful if you didn't already have the gcc binaries. We made a gcc binary package on the SOFTWARE page under Beta packages near the bottom. Use easypack to get it. Also, some small bugs in the ackpack packages

There is a bug in easypack. A new one is on the SOFTWARE page. To install it under MINIX 3, log in as bin and type: urlget http://www.minix3.org/download/easypack >/usr/bin/easypack Check the mode to see if it is executable. Four beta test packages

We have created several e-mail addresses for communicating with us: bugs@minix3.org (for reporting bugs) test@minix3.org (for sending us new software to test or reporting on existing beta software) root@minix3.org (for everything else)

We have had about 90,000 visitors and almost 30,000 downloads so far. Hopefully a substantial number of people are now checking this news page and the newsgroup: comp.os.minix regularly. Where to from here? We are working on a number of things at the VU, including automatic

If you are interested in seeing how much traffic there is to the Website, there is a little colored square on the bottom of the main page you can click on. Note that this link was installed yesterday, after the flash crowd of over 50,000 visits had already passed.

The launch yesterday was a great success. We have had over 50,000 visitors and over 12,000 downloads of the CD-ROM image in the past 24 hours. Due to popular demand, we have added a link on the main menu for the source code so you can inspect it

Today is the big day--The official release of MINIX 3. The SOSP CD and download file represent a major milestone, but the system is far from finished and your help is needed (see the HOME page). Some of the larger commands sources have been omitted from the compressed downloadable CD

The CDs have been burned, the servers are provisioned and we are ready to go.

Lots of last minute changes 2 days before the launch. It is a good thing we like living dangerously. All the reincarnation server related code has been updated, but not tested as thoroughly as we would have liked. Furthermore, perl and gcc have been installed.