Time to dig out that old 386 PC from the garage: it may be obsolete to run Windows, but it is all that is required to run Minix, a pocket-size implementation of Unix created specifically for educational purposes. By running Minix you can learn to find your way around any Unix system, using the powerful set of commands provided by the shell, the text-based user interface that is standard on all modern implementations of Unix.

How to Get and Install Minix

Getting Started With Minix

Note For Advanced C Programmers

If you are interested in systems programming, studying Minix is an excellent way to understand the inner workings of an operating system, since it is provided with full source code in C.

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