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Also known as the Neo Z83-4 Plus. The Z83-4 Plus is a fanless Mini PC which Includes 4GB DDR3L + 64GB eMMC 5.1, Intel® 8th Gen. HD Graphics, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, and a VESA Mount included for fast and easy installation. Minix has built a strong reputation for performance and reliability. Their latest Mini PC comes pre-installed with a Windows 10 Pro operating system and a very respectable list of hardware components. The MINIX Neo N42C-4 ships with a built-in storage capacity of 32GB and 4GB of RAM. Minix Neo Storage Pro is a 480GB solid-state drive that’s also a USB-C multi-port adapter. Plug it into a MacBook and it expands the storage capacity, while also adding HDMI and USB-A ports. Overall, the Minix NEO C is likely the best accessory you could invest in, especially going forward. Don't forget you can just plug this into newer laptops and tablets and also get the same.

A free UNIX-like operating system designed mostly for embedded system and low-power laptops

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What's new in MINIX 3.3.0:

The system is based on a tiny (12,700 lines of code) microkernel
The microkernel handles interrupts and message passing and is the only code running in kernel mode.
The rest of the operating system runs as a collection of isolated, protected, user-mode processes
Each device driver is a separate user-mode process isolated by the MMU hardware

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MINIX is an open source, independent and freely distributed UNIX-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture. It is a small OS that has been designed from the ground up to be used as an educational tool targeted at low-power laptops and embedded systems.

The OS is distributed as a dual-arch ISO image

The MINIX operating system is distributed as a dual-arch ISO image, which has been archived with the bz2 compression method and engineered to run on computers that support both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) instruction set architectures. While the bz2 archive has approximately 120MB in size, the ISO image weighs in about 400MB.

The old-school boot menu features four different options

Please note that the ISO image must be written to a CD disc or a USB thumb drive of 512MB or higher capacity in order to boot it from the BIOS of a PC. It will prompt users with a boot menu that features four different options, the ability to start the live system with or without AHCI support, the ability to drop to a shell prompt, and the ability to edit the menu options.

It runs in live mode and can be installed on a local drive

While the system will run smoothly from the bootable medium and many of its pre-installed commands will work properly, you will have to install it on a local drive in order to take full advantage of its functionality, including the graphical desktop environment. By default, you will be dropped to a shell prompt where you must login with the “root” username. Type “setup” (without quotes) to start the installation script.

It is not a Linux or BSD operating system

All things considered, MINIX should not be confused with Linux or BSD. It’s still in heavy development and is nowhere near as mature as the aforementioned UNIX-like operating systems. It is not designed for end-users, as a day-to-day operating system!

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MINIX was reviewed by Marius Nestor

3.0/5

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I would recommend MINIX 3.4.0 release candidate 6 to be installed on bare metal instead of MINIX 3.1.0 (especially how the boat loader works with MINIX 3.1.0 [book edition]). I installed of course both of them on bare metal, and had a more pleasurable experience with MINIX 3.4.0 rc 6. The pkgin manager was very straight forward, even more responsive than NetBSD 9.1 (I think 9.1's repo is non-existent!). I used an Acer 3620 laptop with 80 gigs (memory I think is at least 1 gig if not 2 max of ram) with an Intel Celeron M as the processor (it's low-end but a work horse). It was going to be my dedicated MINIX laptop/workstation, but I have other designs meant for that laptop. I will buy another low-end obsolete laptop with the same if not similar specs as the Acer (might either buy one from eBay or use my HP Pavillion, which has a bit higher specs than the Acer, it uses a Celeron processor that is more i686 however) and use that for my MINIX experimentations. I guess you could call me the MINIX mad man of Maine :3 Of course my networking was done with the use of a Google router, hardwired to the ethernet. I cannot wait for the next releases, MINIX has opened me to more than just loving Linux, it made have a deep fascination with UNIX and drove me into a spiritual journey with all things UNIX-like and inspired me to design DRAX OS with Tiny Core Linux. I might look into developing an OS with Genode if it is not too hard to do. Especially since Genode uses microkernels, which is another philosphy that MINIX uses to power the OS that I had me fall in love with the idea of going beyond monolithic kernels.