MINIX 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome to the MINIX 3 wiki. This is the MINIX 3 user manual and documentation. It is a wiki (like the Wikipedia), which means you can edit it, add new material, translate it into other languages, and so on. With your help we can make MINIX 3 a very well documented system. Please help.

PART I: GETTING STARTED

  1. Introduction

    1. Welcome to MINIX 3

    2. Frequently Asked Questions

    3. How to Edit this MINIX 3 Wiki

    4. The MINIX 3 Raccoon Mascot

  2. Installing MINIX 3

    1. Hardware Requirements

    2. Disk Partitions

    3. Running Multiple Operating Systems

    4. Doing the Installation

    5. Optimizations

    6. Troubleshooting

  3. Installing Applications

    1. Packman

    2. Compiling_from_Source

    3. Notes on Installing Applications

  4. The X Window System

    1. Introduction to X

    2. Configuring X

    3. Window_Managers

    4. Using_Fonts

    5. Desktop Environments

  5. Printing

    1. Introduction

    2. Setup

    3. Troubleshooting

  6. Virtualization

    1. Running_MINIX_3_on_VMware

    2. Running_MINIX_3_on_Qemu

    3. Running_MINIX_3_on_Parallels

    4. Running MINIX 3 on VirtualBox

PART II: USING MINIX 3

  1. Common Text-Based Applications

    1. Standard UNIX Utility Programs

    2. The GNU Utilities

  2. Multimedia Applications

    1. Displaying Images

    2. Sound

    3. Video Playback

  3. Games
  4. Internet Applications

    1. Browsers

    2. E-mail

    3. File_Transfer

    4. Setting up a Web Server

  5. Programming
    1. Languages
    2. Debuggers
    3. Assembly Language Programming

      1. X86 CPU Reference Manuals

PART III: SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

  1. Basic System Administration

    1. Introduction to System Administration

    2. Setting the Root Password

    3. Managing User Accounts

    4. Manual Pages for Administrators

  2. Starting and Stopping MINIX 3
    1. The Boot Monitor
    2. Shutdown Sequence
  3. Configuration and Tuning
  4. Security
    1. Securing MINIX 3
    2. OpenSSL
    3. OpenSSH
  5. Networking
  6. Technical Notes

    1. Harmless Diagnostic Messages

PART IV: BEING A MINIX 3 DEVELOPER

  1. Rebuilding the System

    1. Directory Structure

    2. Multiple Architectures

    3. Using Subversion

    4. The MINIX 3 APIs

    5. Rebuilding the System

    6. Testing the System

    7. Making a boot CD-ROM

  2. Writing or Porting Software

    1. Making a Packman Package

  3. TODO

    1. Things you would like someone to do

    2. Work in progress

PART V: MINIX 3 IN EDUCATION

  1. Class Projects

APPENDICES

  1. Resources on the Internet

  2. Usenet News

Relevant links

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