When Andrew S. Tanenbaum created the educational, open-source operating system MINIX, he did it to teach operating system principles to his students at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit and to readers of ...

Minix, the Unix operating system that inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux, has been expanded to give users a wider range of commands and features, thanks in large part to a Google Summer of Code ...

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 ...

There is growing unrest concerning the scope and potential for mischief arising from the deployment of modern processors packing Intel’s Management Engine. Back in May the EFF published an article ...

Columnist Dave Taylor reminisces about the early days of UNIX and how Linux evolved and grew from that seed. Twenty five years of Linux Journal. This also marks my 161st column with the magazine too, ...