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Tuesday 8 July 2008The 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. Wednesday 23 April 2008Some interesting new ports: netpbm, psutils, groff, and gnupg. Tuesday 8 April 2008New ports: pce, mdf2iso, pstotext, catdoc, lesstif. Two Minix wallpapers: minix1.jpg and minix2.jpg. Thanks to Roman Ignatov for these wallpapers. Thursday 27 March 2008The 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 the ideas page. If you are a student, check this out NOW.
Thursday 20 Mar 2008 - One million visitorsThe MINIX 3 Website has now passed one million visitors since it went up at the end of 2005. For a research project, that is really quite a bit. Thanks for your interest and help. Friday 14 Dec 2007 - New port - MPlayerMPlayer 1.0 rc1 is available. Thursday 23 Aug 2007 - New port - LaTeXLaTeX is available from the tetex distribution tetex-3.0. Thursday 2 Aug 2007 - New portAdded the port done of lpr for MINIX 2 to packages. Wednesday 1 Aug 2007 - Driver for Orinoco wireless network cardsA driver for wireless PCI cards with the Prism chipset from Intersil by Michael Valkering and Stevens LeBlond has been committed. Wednesday 1 Aug 2007 - New portWe have a a new port, CSSC: CSSC is the GNU Project's replacement for SCCS. SCCS is a proprietary suite of tools which is provided with most commercial versions of Unix. The purpose behind CSSC is to provide a work-alike for SCCS which can be used on the various Free versions of Unix. Wednesday 27 June 2007 - New portFrom 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. Friday 8 June 2007 - Incremental release of 3.1.3A 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. Wednesday 23 May 2007 - New PortsThe following interesting new ports have been added recently. Tuesday 17 April 2007 - SnapshotsAs of today we're building weekly snapshots of MINIX. See http://derelict.cs.vu.nl/. This interface will probably get a bit fancier. Friday 13 April 2007 - MINIX 3.1.3 PrereleaseAn 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 download page. Monday 6 March 2007New ports: Links, an advanced text-based www browser, and also Links-2, a version of links that displays webpages in an X window. Some screenshots of it in action: ..
As yet, they're only compiled for the 'current' version of minix, and they aren't in the 3.1.2a packman list yet. Monday 19 February 2007New port: A message transfer agent, Exim. Wednesday 10 January 2007New port: Equinox Desktop Environment (and supporting libraries).
Monday 8 January 2007New port: ImageMagick (and supporting libraries).Wednesday 27 December 2006A number of new publications about MINIX 3 have been added to the DOCUMENTATION pageFriday 03 November 2006
Friday 27 October 2006A ready-to-run Minix 3.1.2a for VMware Player is available from the VMware page.Wednesday 25 October 2006Ingmar Alting has ported MINIX 3 to the PowerPC Platform. His Masters thesis is now available on the DOCUMENTATION page. We are integrating it into the main system.Friday 06 October 2006We've switched from CVS to Subversion for the MINIX source and ports repositories. There are fully fledged ports for the Subversion client and server for MINIX. The MINIX source project page can be found here: https://gforge.cs.vu.nl/projects/minix/ from where you can currently only browse the imported CVS repository.This means that currently, the tracking 'current' page is out of date - it will be updated for an SVN version soon. Also the tools/release.sh script will be updated. Also, the CVS mirror to the derelict MINIX machine is obsolete. We may find another use for the derelict, but currently it's obsolete itself as well. Of course we'd like to keep a MINIX3 machine in production, we just need a new job for it.. Those of you that are subscribed to the minix-updates-l on which CVS commits are posted, will be moved to the SVN commits mailing list. The main reason for this change is that to incorporate recent improvements to MINIX (specifically, VFS and the PPC port), some MINIX source hierarchy will have to be changed, which is a dreadful job under CVS and loses historical state. With SVN, we will maintain proper history. Monday 25 September 2006There is an article about MINIX 3 on OSnews.com today.Saturday 23 September 2006Balasz Gerofi's masters thesis on a VFS for MINIX 3 is available now . When we have integrated the code, it will become a permanent part of the system.Wednesday 20 September 2006After the long summer break, more should be happening on the MINIX 3 front soon. One upcoming development is a very nice set of performance measuring tools. A Masters thesis describing the tools is now available now . The software itself will be available soon.Monday 14 August 2006
Sunday 23 July 2006We now have FLTK, the Fast Light Tool Kit, a nice little graphics package. You can get it using: easypack fltk-1.1.7Tuesday 18 July 2006A new version of X11R6 has been posted, which includes the gcc versions of the X libraries. They are installed in the /usr/X11R6-gcc/ root, i.e., in /usr/X11R6-gcc/lib.Friday 14 July 2006A publicly accessible copy of the MINIX CVS repository has gone live. You can access it by CVS by using a CVSROOT of:pserver:anonymous@derelict.cs.vu.nl:/cvsup/minix or by using http by cvsweb. Note added later: We have replaced CVS by subversion. See the news for 06 Oct. 2006. It's running on a MINIX 3 machine, the first one that can be said to be in production use, here at the VU at least, albeit experimentally. For details, please see Philip's announcement in the newsgroup. Monday 29 May 2006The first public version of the g++ port is ready and available through packman (network package). g++ does require fixes that went into MINIX 3.1.2a. It is available now on the download page.Tuesday 16 May 2006Some new items that make it easier to participate in MINIX 3 development.
Sunday 07 May 2006The first graphical program for MINIX 3, xv, is now available on the SOFTWARE page. This program can be used to view photos and other JPEG and similar files. This milestone (which depends on X), marks the start of transition from text-only to a more graphical user experience.Friday 28 April 2006Ivan Kelly has ported MINIX 3 to Xen. His report and the code are listed on the DOCUMENTATION page or here.Thursday 18 April 2006MINIX 3.1.2 is available.Thursday 06 April 2006A second public beta of MINIX 3.1.2, called 3.1.2-B3, is available. See the Experimental Versions page for the download and more information.Tuesday 28 Mar 2006A public beta of MINIX 3.1.2, called 3.1.2-B2, is available. See the Experimental Versions page for the download and more information.Wednesday 15 Mar 2006There hasn't been much news lately but we are hard at work on version 3.1.2. There is now some information on the Experimental Versions page. Among other features, it will have X Windows and much more.Tuesday 07 Feb 2006The setup manual is now available in HTML so it can be read in a Web browser (in addition to the PS and PDF versions). Anyone planning to translate it into another language using the Latin alphabet should copy this version and edit it, keeping the HTML markup.Thursday 02 Feb 2006The FAQ is now available in the following languages: Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean , Russian, and Spanish. Some other documents have also been translated. They are all linked to the DOCUMENTATION page. Additional translations are definitely welcome. Please start with the original and edit it to preserve the HTML markup.Sunday 22 Jan 2006German and Korean versions of the FAQ are now on the DOCUMENTATION page. Additional translations of the FAQ and setup guide are welcome. If you translate an HTML file, please copy and edit the English one to keep the appearance the same.Tuesday 17 Jan 2006The MINIX 3 FAQ and installation guide are now available in Italian on the DOCUMENTATION page. Translations to other languages are welcome.Wednesday 11 Jan 2006The MINIX book is now available. Amazon.com and other bookstores have it in stock. Here is a link to it at amazon.com.Sunday 18 Dec 2005We reached another milestone today: the CD-ROM image containing MINIX 3 has now been downloaded 75,000 times.Friday 09 Dec 2005The GNU POSIX test suite is now available. To install and run it, typeeasypack opts-1.5.1 opts Wednesday 30 Nov 2005Three new beta packages have been put on the SOFTWARE page: fb, less-3.8.5, and wget-1.5.3Saturday 19 Nov 2005Openssl-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.Friday 18 Nov 2005The 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.Wednesday 16 Nov 2005Some new beta packages are now available. Here is the current list.
Sunday 13 Nov 2005We 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.Thursday 03 Nov 2005The 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 were fixed today so if you are going to test it, please get the new one. Wednesday 02 Nov 2005There 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 are now available. After you have installed bunzip2 and the new easypack, you can get them all by typing: easypack dungeon-2.7.1 pdksh-5.2.14 unzip-5.52 zip-2.31The ACK compiler in the distribution is an elderly one not generated from the ackpack sources. We we would like people to go to /usr/src/commands/ackpack and type ./build to rebuild the compiler, then test it heavily and report back to test@minix3.org. Thanks. Sunday 30 Oct 2005We have created several e-mail addresses for communicating with us:
Thursday 27 Oct 2005We 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 recovery from driver failures, a simple virtual memory model, and X Windows. But we are definitely interested in getting help from other people. Some things that would be very useful are:
Wednesday 26 Oct 2005If 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. Also, on the DOCUMENTATION page, there is a link to a different traffic analysis near the bottom of the page.By accident, bunzip2 was left off the CD-ROM. Without it, easypack does not work. Sorry about that. The binary is now on www.minix3.org/software near the top of the page. Fetch it with urlget from www.minix3.org/download/bzip2.tar. The files bzip2 and bunzip2 are the same file, linked using both names. Sorry for the inconvenience. Tuesday 25 Oct 2005The 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 using another operating system. It is also included on the CD image, of course.We also added a sitemeter icon at the very bottom of the main page so you can observe the traffic. Furthermore, there is a Webalyzer display of the Apache logs available. Monday 24 Oct 2005Today 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 image to keep it from being 130 MB, but they are all available using the SOFTWARE link above.This page will be used for communicating major news items about MINIX 3, but for day-to-day discussions, use comp.os.minix. Here is some news about developments that are in the pipeline:
Sunday 23 Oct 2005The CDs have been burned, the servers are provisioned and we are ready to go.Saturday 22 Oct 2005Lots 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.
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