Is minix3 ok to run my desktop on? If not, what needs fixing?
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Sergeyli
Ok. I read somewhere that there's no virtual-memory manager or swap
file or something. Is that all sorted?
There are currently 10 ethernet drivers and 1 WLAN driver (Orinoco)
Supported ethernet chips are currently
1. Intel Pro/100
2. 3Com 501 or 3Com 509 based card
3. Realtek 8139 based card (also emulated by KVM)
4. Realtek 8169 based card
5. Realtek 8029 based card (also emulated by Qemu)
6. NE2000, 3com 503 or WD based card (also emulated by Bochs)
7. AMD LANCE (also emulated by VMWare and VirtualBox)
8. Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit
9. Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet
10. DEC Tulip 21140A in VirtualPC
There was an working port of Open Sound System, but it was broken and
now one has repaired it.
Minix has currently no USB Stack, maybe is anyone working on it?
Common UNIX software like ftp, ssh, X11, tar, gzip, Python, GCC is avaible.
There is a basic virtual memory manager (since about 2 years).
It allows virtual allocation for stack and shared memory (IPC), which is
very nice to use X11 or other memory hungry programs like GCC or BSD
make; OTOH there is no demand-load, no file-mapping, hence no dynamic
loading or shared libraries, and no swap.
Antoine
Ok. I'm familiar with linux kernel operation to some degree. I'll have
a look and think about what i can fix when i get time.