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 +===== MINIX 3.3.0 is Available Now =====
  
 +**[[..:​download:​|I can't wait, take me to the download page right now.]]**
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 +In 2008, the European Research Council awarded Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the designer of MINIX, an Advanced Grant of €2.5 million (about $3.2 million) to produce a reliable operating system. He and his team have been working on it hard since then and they are now proud to release the result as a free and open-source operating system for the PC and ARM. It comes with a BSD license, meaning that individuals and companies can use it in products without paying royalties and without being required to disclose any changes they make to competitors.
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 +MINIX 1 was originally a system aimed at teaching operating systems but after the ERC grant, the focus changed to include producing a solid, commercially viable product as well. The new version, MINIX 3.3.0, has a number of key features:
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 +  * The system is based on a tiny (12,700 lines of code) microkernel
 +  * The microkernel handles interrupts and message passing and is the only code running in kernel mode.
 +  * The rest of the operating system runs as a collection of isolated, protected, user-mode processes
 +  * Each device driver is a separate user-mode process isolated by the MMU hardware
 +  * If a driver crashes, the system automatically restarts it, with running applications not even noticing
 +  * This means that MINIX 3.3.0 is self-healing
 +  * Userland is largely compatible with NetBSD and runs [[.:​success|thousands of NetBSD packages]]
 +  * By combining an innovative self-healing research OS with NetBSD userland, we got the best of both worlds
 +  * Both the clang/LLVM and gcc compilers are available, as well as perl, python, etc.
 +  * MINIX 3.3.0 is available for both the x86 and ARM Cortex A8 architectures,​ making it ideal for embedded systems
 +  * [[https://​build.opensuse.org/​package/​show/​home:​beng-nl/​Minix3|Tools]] for cross compiling MINIX 3 for the ARM on Linux are provided
 +  * Ports are available now for the BeagleBoard XM, BeagleBone white, and BeagleBone black
 +  * Extensive documentation is available in the [[:|MINIX 3 wiki]]
 +  * The code has been improved over MINIX 3.2.1 in hundreds of ways, leading to a cleaner and more reliable system
 +  * Other features are listed [[..:​documentation:​features|here]].
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 +Here are the Beagle single-board computers on which ARM MINIX 3.3.0 runs.
 +{{ www:​download:​beagles.jpg }}
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 +To learn more about the MINIX 3 project, look [[..:​documentation:​read-more|here]].
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 +The release notes for MINIX 3.3.0 can be found [[:​releases:​3.3.0|here]].
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 +You can get the compressed .iso image from the [[..:​download:​|download page]].
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 +Here are the instructions for the [[:​developersguide:​minixonarm|ARM build]].
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 +Please come join our [[..:​community:​|community]].
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