Hobby or not hobby ?
bq. Hello everybody out there using minix –
bq. I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
bq. I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them 
bq. Linus (torva…@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
bq. PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have 
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Aucun engagement (“won’t be big and professional like gnu”, “I won’t promise”, “it is not portable”, “it probably never will”), mais des résultats qq années plus tard … tout l’inverse de la politique en somme.