17th September 2014
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MINIX 3.3.0 is Available Now
From http://www.minix3.org/330.html
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The new version, MINIX 3.3.0, has a number of key features:
- The system is based on a tiny (12,700 lines of code) microkernel
- The microkernel handles interrupts and message passing and is the only code running in kernel mode.
- The rest of the operating system runs as a collection of isolated, protected, user-mode processes
- Each device driver is a separate user-mode process isolated by the MMU hardware
- If a driver crashes, the system automatically restarts it, with running applications not even noticing
- This means that MINIX 3.3.0 is self-healing
- Userland is largely compatible with NetBSD and runs thousands of NetBSD packages
- By combining an innovative self-healing research OS with NetBSD userland, we got the best of both worlds
- Both the clang/LLVM and gcc compilers are available, as well as perl, python, etc.
- MINIX 3.3.0 is available for both the x86 and ARM Cortex A8 architectures, making it ideal for embedded systems
- Tools for cross compiling MINIX 3 for the ARM on Linux are provided
- Ports are available now for the BeagleBoard XM, BeagleBone white, and BeagleBone black
- Extensive documentation is available in the MINIX 3 wiki
- The code has been improved over MINIX 3.2.1 in hundreds of ways, leading to a cleaner and more reliable system
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