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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux creator Linux Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum, the man who created Minix for the study of operating systems and software at Vrije University in Amsterdam, may have had their differences in the ...

Professor Andrew Tannenbaum, creator of the Minix operating system, has announced that he will retire from the University of Vrije in the Netherlands, where he has worked for 43 years. Tannenbaum ...

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 ...

MINIX may be best known around these parts for making tiny computers and TV sticks featuring ARM-based processors and Google Android software. But the company’s also got a line of small motherboards ...