Am 10.11.2010 15:49, schrieb Russell Shaw:
that was on older versions of Minix.
Minix 3.1.4 and newer has virtual memory support.
I don't recommend MINIX currently for your desktop PC, because missing
drivers and there are currently not very much desktop applications, like
office, multimedia, browsers, etc..
If you want to install it on a real machine, i recommend you an old PC
like a Pentium 3 machine.
I has installed Minix 3.1.8 on an ten years old computer and there was
it really fast. boot of this computer with Minix tooks online 15
Seconds, while Windows 98SE tooks 2 minutes on this machine

There are currently 10 ethernet drivers and 1 WLAN driver (Orinoco)
Supported ethernet chips are currently
  1.   Intel Pro/100
  2.   3Com 501 or 3Com 509 based card
  3.   Realtek 8139 based card (also emulated by KVM)
  4.   Realtek 8169 based card
  5.   Realtek 8029 based card (also emulated by Qemu)
  6.   NE2000, 3com 503 or WD based card (also emulated by Bochs)
  7.   AMD LANCE (also emulated by VMWare and VirtualBox)
  8.   Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit
  9.   Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet
10.   DEC Tulip 21140A in VirtualPC

There was an working port of Open Sound System, but it was broken and
now one has repaired it.

Minix has currently no USB Stack, maybe is anyone working on it?

Common UNIX software like ftp, ssh, X11, tar, gzip, Python, GCC is avaible.