--- Kussh wrote:
came to know about minix3 http://www.minix3.org/ from one of google's ads
It could be. But the functioning of many tasks (I/O, Memory Management etc) of a GNU/Linux is different. The kernel is different. Minix has a microkernel architecture, whereas Linux has a monolithic. Their goals were different too. I guess, so far, both have been reasonably successful.
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