One of the world's lesser-known operating systems may actually be the most used OS in the world, according to new revelations made by Google's Linux experts. The culprit is MINIX 3, an open-source and ...

Are you reading this on a machine running a GNU/Linux distribution? A Windows machine? Or perhaps an Apple OS? It doesn’t really matter, because your computer is probably running MINIX anyway. There ...

A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than Linux or Microsoft Windows. The €2.5 ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

In the mid 1980’s I was working on a port of the MINIX operating system, which is a very light implementation of Unix that can run on very small unpowered hardware systems. Apparently this research is ...

Ahead of IFA 2015, Minix has announced a new addition to their range of hardware in the form of the Minix Z-series of mini PCs that have been designed to run Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 operating ...