Minix development has been abandoned?
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Minix development has been abandoned?
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#4Can’t software be done? No known bugs, all features in a proposed scope written. Done and done.
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#5The primary author and evangelist of Minix is 79 years old, so maybe slowing down a bit?
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#6https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...
"These processors are running a closed-source variation of the open-source MINIX 3. We don't know exactly what version or how it's been modified"
You'd hope the version they use has been worked on in the last 5 years.
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#7The reason is probably that enthusiasm died out when Intel used it for their covert management engine in every x86 cpu they sell. Essentially bavkdooring all computers in the world...
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#8Can’t software be done? No known bugs, all features in a proposed scope written. Done and done.
No, software can't be done, because the hardware platform it runs on continues to change.
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#9The reason is probably that enthusiasm died out when Intel used it for their covert management engine in every x86 cpu they sell. Essentially bavkdooring all computers in the world...
Should've used GPL...
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#10Can’t software be done? No known bugs, all features in a proposed scope written. Done and done.
Either one of those would be a notable accomplishment on its own for a medium size codebase. I don’t feel that there would be reason to believe that both of those would be true here.