Book

The main documentation for MINIX 3 is the book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 3/e by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull, Prentice Hall, 2006. The image at the right is a link to the book at amazon.com. This book discusses operating systems in general, and MINIX 3 in particular. A large piece of the source code is listed in Appendix B and is described in detail in the text. The listing is available in various formats. The files, functions, and #defines are indexed. The version of the code listed in the appendix is available as a tar file.

MINIX 3 Wiki

We are trying to get the users more involved in the project and to improve the state of the documentation. For this reason, we have set up a wiki, like the Wikipedia, except only about MINIX 3. It is located at wiki.minix3.org. The intention is to move all the documentation there. Anyone can edit it. You can, too!

Installation

• Installation Guide

Using MINIX 3

• User Guide
• Developers Guide
• Minix FAQ
• Manual pages

Papers and theses about MINIX 3

• Link to papers and theses

Other Documents

• Easy introduction to MINIX 3 on osnews.com
• Editorial in ;login about MINIX 3* (see p. 3)
• Editorial on microkernels on osnews.com
• Documentation on booting V2.0
• Networking documentation
• Reference manual for the kernel API calls (PostScript)
• X Window System internals documentation
• Large raccoon logos in a zip file
• Screen shots
• Statistics on minix3.org traffic: Sitemeter         Webalizer         Unique-IPs

* Indicates that the file is in PDF format.