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.

MINIX 3 Wiki

We are trying to get the users more involved in the project and to improve the state of the documentation. For this reason, we have set up a wiki, like the Wikipedia, except only about MINIX 3. It is located at wiki.minix3.org. The intention is to move all the documentation there. Anyone can edit it. You can, too! We would like to have it available in many languages, so if you can help translate (sections of) it to another language, please do so. If you want to add another language to the main page, please let us know.

Installation

• Tutorial on disk partitions Also in French Italian
• 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 Also in german
• 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 and theses about MINIX 3

Other Documents

• Easy introduction to MINIX 3 on osnews.com
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). Also in Brazilian Portugese   Chinese (simplified)   Chinese (traditional)   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)
• X Window System internals documentation
• Large raccoon logos in a zip file
• Screen shots
• Statistics on minix3.org traffic: Sitemeter         Webalizer         Unique-IPs

* Indicates that the file is in PDF format.