Author: Peter 'Rattacresh' Backes (38-231-24-217.dialin.de.netfab.net)
Date: 10-10-2001 18:26
Hello,
I think there is some confusion about MINIX and MINIXFS going on here. MINIX was there first, it was a more or less usable UNIX clone for educational purposes which didn't require a PMMU. It's filesystem, MINIXFS, was made available later as a MiNT filesystem driver, to make MINIX' partitions readable under MiNT. It was then used to build UNIX-Like environments around the MiNT kernel, like SpareMiNT. Most atari users only know 'MINIX' as a term for describing this filesystem driver for MiNT, although MINIXFS is the correct wording, and that causes the confusion.
MINIX has been released for free redistribution, including source code.
From http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html:
LEGAL STATUS OF MINIX
Although MINIX is supplied with the complete source code, it is copyrighted software. However, the copyright owner has granted everyone the right to redistribute or sell it, with or without source code, in unmodified or modified form. For all practical purposes, MINIX can be treated as if it were in the public domain.
The general download page is:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/getting_minix.html
Download Disk images for the ATARI version 1.5 of Minix here:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/atari/
I hope that resolves some of the confusion.
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