Minux is an open source operating system with a user interface similar to that of Unix. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum, of Vrije University in Amsterdam, created Minux as an educational tool. To this end, Minux was developed with a small and well-documented microkernel-based design. The complete source code was made available with the system.
To learn the inner workings of Unix-like systems, students can run Minux on their personal computers. According to reports, even inexperienced students can acquire a good knowledge of the whole system within the few months of study typical of training courses. The best known student user of Minux was Linus Torvalds, who, at the Helsinki in Finland, used the Minux platform on which to build the kernel for a new operating system, which he called Linux.
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