MINIX 3 Table of Contents

Welcome to the MINIX 3 wiki. This is the MINIX 3 user manual and documentation. It is a wiki (like the Wikipedia), which means you can edit it, add new material, translate it into other languages, and so on. With your help we can make MINIX 3 a very well documented system. Please help.

Part I: Getting Started

  1. Introduction

    1. Welcome to MINIX 3

    2. Frequently Asked Questions

    3. How to Edit this MINIX 3 Wiki

    4. The MINIX 3 Raccoon Mascot

    5. MINIX 3 Road map

    6. Wish List

  2. Installing MINIX 3

    1. Hardware Requirements

    2. Disk Partitions

    3. Running Multiple Operating Systems

    4. Doing the Installation

    5. Optimizations

    6. Troubleshooting

  3. Installing Applications

    1. Packman

    2. Compiling from Source

    3. Notes on Installing Applications

  4. The X Window System

    1. Introduction to X

    2. Configuring X

    3. Window Managers

    4. Using Fonts

    5. Desktop Environments

  5. Printing

    1. Introduction

    2. Setup

    3. Troubleshooting

  6. Virtualization

    1. Running MINIX 3 on VMware

    2. Running MINIX 3 on Qemu

    3. Running MINIX 3 on Bochs

    4. Running MINIX 3 on Parallels

    5. Running MINIX 3 on VirtualBox

Part II: Using MINIX 3

  1. Common Text-Based Applications

    1. Standard UNIX Utility Programs

    2. The GNU Utilities

  2. Multimedia Applications

    1. Displaying Images

    2. Sound

    3. Video Playback

  3. Games

  4. Internet Applications

    1. Browsers

    2. E-mail

    3. File Transfer

    4. Setting up a Web Server

  5. Programming

    1. Posix and MINIX 3

    2. Programming in MINIX 3

    3. Languages
    4. Debuggers

    5. Assembly Language Programming

      1. Learning Assembly in Minix

      2. Assembly Language Resources

      3. X86 CPU Reference Manuals

Part III: System Administration

  1. Basic System Administration

    1. Introduction to System Administration

    2. Setting the Root Password

    3. Managing User Accounts

    4. Manual Pages for Administrators

  2. Starting and Stopping MINIX 3

    1. The Boot Monitor
    2. Shutdown Sequence

  3. Configuration and Tuning

  4. Security

    1. Securing MINIX 3
    2. OpenSSL
    3. OpenSSH

  5. Networking

  6. Technical Notes

    1. Harmless Diagnostic Messages

    2. Ram Disks

    3. MINIX 3 Assembly Language

Part IV: Being a MINIX 3 Developer

  1. Rebuilding the System

    1. Directory Structure

    2. Multiple Architectures

    3. Tracking Current

    4. Using Subversion

    5. The MINIX 3 APIs

    6. The Kernel API

    7. The FS API

    8. Rebuilding the System

    9. Testing the System

    10. Making a boot CD-ROM

  2. Writing or Porting Software

    1. Guide to Porting Software

    2. Making a Packman Package

  3. TODO

    1. Things you would like someone to do

    2. Work in progress

    3. Things to sort-out in translations

Part V: MINIX 3 IN EDUCATION

  1. Class Projects

Appendices

  1. Resources on the Internet

  2. Usenet News

Relevant Links

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