Book

The main documentation for MINIX 3 is the book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 3/e by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull, Prentice Hall, 2006. The image at the right is a link to the book at amazon.com. This book discusses operating systems in general, and MINIX 3 in particular. A large piece of the source code is listed in Appendix B and is described in detail in the text. The listing is available in various formats. The files, functions, and #defines are indexed. The version of the code listed in the appendix is available as a tar file.

Installation

• Tutorial on disk partitions Also in French
• MINIX 3 setup manual in HTML, PostScript, or PDF.   Also in Chinese* Chinese Greek Italian Russian*
• Potential problem putting MINIX 3 on the second disk and solution
• Multiboot loaders
• Hints for optimizing your configuration

Using MINIX 3

• Manual pages
• POSIX and MINIX 3
• Programming in the MINIX 3 environment Also in French
• How to be a superuser
• How to run MINIX on Bochs

Technical Notes

• Hints and notes
• How to make a MINIX 3 package for use with easypack. Also in Chinese (simplified)   Russian*  
• RAM disks
• Exchanging data with other operating systems Also in French Russian*
• The vol command
• The elle editor
• Some notes on the MINIX 3 Assembly language
• Explanation of some warning messages you may see
• Some notes on the a.out file format

Papers about MINIX 3

• Can We Make Operating Systems Reliable and Secure? (in IEEE Computer, May 2006, pp. 44-51)
• Modular System Programming in MINIX 3* (in USENIX ;login, April 2006, pp. 19-28)
• A Lightweight Method for Building Reliable Operating Systems Despite Unreliable Device Drivers*
• MINIX 3 on Xen (report and code)

Theses about MINIX 3

• Design and Implementation of the MINIX Virtual File System (Balazs Gerofi's Masters thesis)
• A Port of the MINIX OS to the PowerPC Platform* (Ingmar Alting's Masters thesis)
• Building Performance Measurement Tools for the MINIX 3 Operating System* (Rogier Meurs' Masters thesis)
• Towards a True Microkernel Operating System (Jorrit Herder's Masters thesis)

Other Documents

• Easy introduction to MINIX 3 on osnews.com
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Also in Chinese   French   German   Greek   Italian   Korean   Russian*   Polish   Spanish  
• Editorial in ;login about MINIX 3* (see p. 3)
• Editorial on microkernels on osnews.com
• Documentation on booting V2.0
• Networking documentation
• Reference manual for the kernel API calls (PostScript)
• Large raccoon logos in a zip file
• Screen shots
• Statistics on minix3.org traffic

* Indicates that the file is in PDF format.