[Fsf-friends] minix --the father of linux

[Roshan]

--- Kussh wrote:

> came to know about minix3 http://www.minix3.org/
> from one of google's ads

It could be. But the functioning of many tasks (I/O,
Memory Management etc) of a GNU/Linux is different.
The kernel is different. Minix has a microkernel
architecture, whereas Linux has a monolithic. Their
goals were different too. I guess, so far, both have
been reasonably successful.

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