Minix 3.3.0
I've upvoted this because I would like to see minix succeed and for nostalgic reasons but I can't help the feeling that minix has missed its window of opportunity. In practically every arena where minix could have established itself there are now formidable entities entrenched with mindshare, budgets and an installed base that minix can't even begin to touch. I've got similar feelings towards plan 9.<p>Even so, minix has a spot, and that spot is in education, an OS that can function like a digital version of a petri dish, something that you can quickly morph to test out a new idea without having to drag a huge behemoth of a kernel behind you.<p>I'm quite sad about this, I think that if minix had been open instead of 'published as a book' that minix would have been what Linux is today only better engineered and that we'd all be better off for that.<p>Not being GPL'd meant that a whole generation of hackers followed Linus Torvalds rather than buying a bunch of books from Prentice Hall. And so now we have 70's era tech instead of 90's.