Creating a New Account

[Luis henrique bastos tamura]

Hello Everyone,

So I saw in the website that I need to do a request to be able to create an

account on Minix, I'd be very thankful is someone could help me with that

[stux...@gmail.com]

Hi Luis,

By "an account on Minix" are you referring to access to the wiki?  If so, please note that those of us working towards reviving the project do not yet have admin access to the wiki.  We're working towards this although it will be a while before everything is settled.  I'm wondering what pages and content were you looking to update?  If not, what exactly did you mean by creating "an account on Minix"?

-stux

[Luis henrique bastos tamura]

Hi I meant on the virtual machine minix 

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[stux...@gmail.com]

Ah! Okay, in that case the answer is simpler:  In the Minix wiki's User's Guide ( https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=usersguide:start ) there is a page on how to manage (add, update, remove) user accounts:

• https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=usersguide:managinguseraccounts

These are pretty much in line with how users are handled in most unix distributions.  Hope this helps!

-stux

[Luis henrique bastos tamura]

Thank you Very Much, It worked !!!

Another question that I have is

do you know a way to change the Kernel from First Come First Served (FCFS) to Shortest Job First?

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[stux...@gmail.com]

Hi Luis,

It sounds like you want to customize the scheduler's scheduling algorithm.  Minix's scheduler is interesting in that it allows the scheduling algorithm to reside in user space (and thus be easily replaced by a different scheduling service).  More information can be found here:

• https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=developersguide:userspacescheduling

I've yet to work with this so I won't be able to provide specific information on how to implement.  The wiki page, however, does link to a paper that details how user space scheduling works in Minix.  Let us know if you have other questions.  You're welcome to visit the IRC channel (listed on the wiki start page).  We'd love to know if you've made progress with your project.

-stux