News 3.1.4 - r4817 snapshot released 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
News MINIX3 GSOC students Please see this post for the accepted students for MINIX3 2009 Google Summer of Code. Congrats, and to students and mentors - let's make this highly awesome!
News MINIX3 Wallpapers Roman Ignatov submits some lovely minix3 desktop wallpapers done by his wife, Julia Ignatova! Take a look here: minix3 wallpapers. Enjoy, and thanks Julia!
News 3.1.4 - 4203 snapshot released 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
News GSoC application accepted MINIX3 has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code. Are you interested in applying as a student? Check out the site. Our ideas page is here.
News Official GSOC application complete Minix3 has officially applied to become a Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation. More news soon, see the timeline.
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News Moving from newsgroup to google group 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
News New students, and happy new year! 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
News We get € 2.5 million grant 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."
News New programmer joins us 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.
News Spam alert 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
News New ports New ports: pce, mdf2iso, pstotext, catdoc, lesstif. Two Minix wallpapers: minix1.jpg and minix2.jpg. Thanks to Roman Ignatov for these wallpapers.
News Google Summer of Code The Google Summer of Code project is now accepting applications to work on MINIX 3. Students can spend the summer working on MINIX 3 and get paid for it by Google. Here is
News Orinoco wireless driver available 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.
News SQLLite available 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.
News MINIX 3.1.3 released 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
News New Ports 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.
News Snapshots As of today we're building weekly snapshots of MINIX. See http://derelict.cs.vu.nl/. This interface will probably get a bit fancier.
News MINIX 3.1.3 Prerelease 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