I'm wondering if anyone's attempting to revitalise the old Minix. Minix started out an educational software, from which, Torvalds admitted, he drew inspiration. Since then, they had higher ambitions. And now, from the last I heard, it has evolved into neither here nor there.
> And now, from the last I heard, it has evolved into neither here nor there.
Minix 3 is a true microkernel Unix-compatible: it can run most of the NetBSD userland, for instance. It is probably the single most widely run Unix-like OS in the desktop/server world, as a copy runs in the hidden management engine inside every Intel CPU made in the last decade and a half or so. Whether the machine runs Windows, Linux, xBSD, macOS, it doesn't matter: deep inside it's running Minix.
But Intel committed nothing back and never even told the OS's creator. He only found out years later:
Beginning with ME (Management Engine) firmware version 11 (found on Skylake CPUs and newer), Intel utilizes a customized version of the MINIX 3 microkernel operating system.
