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MINIXCon 2016 videos are now online

MINIXCon 2016 was a big sucess. More than 50 people attended. The videos of the talks are now available online.

Paper and Video about the history of MINIX published in Communications of the ACM

Andrew Tanenbaum has written a paper about the history of MINIX, including some background information going back to 1960. The paper discusses lessons learned from the MINIX project. ACM has also made a video of Tanenbaum discussing some of the key points of the paper.

Plans for MINIXCON16

Given enough interest, we will organise a Minix conference. To show your interest, please fill out this form.

3.3.0 Second developer ISO

A second developer ISO is available for testing. Announcement here.

Andy Tanenbaum to speak at EuroBSDCon

Andy Tanenbaum will speak about MINIX 3 at EuroBSDCon in Sofia, Bulgaria on Sept. 27, 2014. Here is the schedule.

3.3.0 merged

The 3.3.0 development branch has been merged with mainline. Announcement here.

New release expected soon

A new release, MINIX 3.3.0 will be out in the Fall - 10 jul 2014

3.2.1 now released

We are pleased to announce the release of MINIX 3.2.1 today. See the full release notes for details!

We are looking for a MINIX3 programmer

There is a vacancy for a programmer on the MINIX3 team. For full details please see AST's homepage.

Minix is accepted as a GSOC mentoring organisation

If you are a student and would like to help us and get paid by Google, please look at this ideas page and follow both Google's instructions and ours.

3.2.0 now released

We are pleased to announce the release of MINIX 3.2.0 today. It is a major upgrade from 3.1.8, being much more NetBSD-like than any previous version. With pkgsrc, the Clang/LLVM toolchain, and the NetBSD C library, it will be much easier to hack on MINIX

Redesigned Website launched

We ran a design contest at 99designs.com and got many great designs for a new Website. The winning design was put up today.

MINIX 3 will be at Embedded World 2012

MINIX 3 will have a stand at the Embedded World 2012 trade show in Nuremberg, Germany, 28 Feb. 2012 to 1 March 2012. Come see us at stand 5-349. Click here for details.

We're hiring

MINIX3 is looking for a fulltime programmer. Interested? Check out http://minix3.org/job.

Accepted GSOC students have started the bonding period

After a careful selection process, we have selected 4 great students to do their GSOC projects with us. For a list and status overview, see the GSOC2011 wiki page. The community bonding period has begun, coding starts may 23rd. So, everyone enjoy getting to know each other :)

Minix3 accepted to GSOC!

Great news. See this link. for the discussion thread.

3.1.8 is here!

3.1.8 is released! See the download page, and http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=Releases: for more release info. The announcement is here.

3.1.7 is here!

3.1.7 is released! See the download page, and http://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=Releases: for more release info.

Accepted GSOC 2010 students

We have fortunate with the applications of many talented students, and the generosity of Google in assigning us 4 slots that we could use to hire students. After a process of reviewing and providing feedback on the student proposals, evaluating their work, and doing interviews, we have selected the four

We've been accepted as a GSOC 2010 organisation!

We are delighted to announce we are participating in this year's Google Summer of Code!

MINIX Programmer Position Available

The MINIX 3 group is looking to hire a full-time systems programmer to improve the system. For more information, see this page.

3.1.6 is here!

3.1.6 is released! See the download page.

New port, FOSDEM

AST is giving a talk at FOSDEM 2010. Some BSD base system utilities were ported by Stanislav Kozina, now in the bsd-utils package.

3.1.5 is here!

3.1.5 is released! See the announcement thread for more information.

3.1.5 coming up

We're in the last stages of preparing a new official release, named 3.1.5. See the announcement of the 3.1.5 public beta for more info.