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[20120229]
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Minix 3.2.0 released... with lots of NetBSD code added
Version 3.2.0 of Minix,
the operating system started by Andrew Tanenbaum,
has been released.
Started quite some time after BSD and before Linux,
its userland grew somewhat outdated. To remedy this,
Minix' userland was now updated to large extents
with components from NetBSD as result of
Minix' 2011 Google Summer of Code project,
which was done by
student Vivek Prakash and
mentored by Gianluca Guida.
Components merged from NetBSD include:
- NetBSD C library
- NetBSD password file format
- NetBSD bootloader
- New NetBSD userland utilities: ext2 fsck&mkfs, gzip, m4, man&tools, mkdep, mkdir, mkfifo, mktemp, rm, rmdir, tic, uniq, libcurses, libcrypt, libprop, libterminfo, libutil, bzip2, date, indent, mdocml (mandoc), sed, zoneinfo ports
See
the Minix release notes
for more details,
[Tags: minix]
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