| Author here. Sortix is Sortix. MINIX is MINIX. I think each project has different goals and that's fair. Some thoughts though, for my os-test project I went and installed every free software Unix-like OS and ran a lot of tests on each of them and got experience with each of them. I don't really consider MINIX a relevant OS. It doesn't have a 64-bit port. The site doesn't offer HTTPS and only has MD5 checksums, so there clearly isn't an attention to security. Sortix offers HTTPS downloads with SHA256 checksums and is up front about its lack of security (next release will do release signing). The latest MINIX release is from 2014, which is a bad project health sign. My latest release is from 2016 (been a bit busy since I got a full time job, but the next release is still being made if at a slower pace, and nightly builds are available and supported). The stable Minix 3.3.0 was pretty buggy and things got better after I upgraded to the Minix 3.4.0 prerelease. The os-test data revealed a bit of a lack of attention to detail in the UDP stack. I don't think MINIX is really trying to be a more generally used system. It used to be more of an education system, which lead to Linux. I have no plans to make Sortix widely used either, but I avoid making mistakes that prevent adoption as part of the general good work. I want to make a good OS that I personally like. I'm happy to be compared to systems like MINIX, Haiku and GNU/Hurd. The ideal reaction to someone mentioning Sortix support should be "Eh, Sortix is cool but who cares? I guess I can do it if trivial". And that's fine, at least they heard of it. I'm a one person project with a small community but I think I'm competing reasonably in this space. I don't really consider Minix that usable. GNU/Hurd is alright but the GNU project is notoriously bad at actually releasing an OS themselves with any sort of technical vision and quality. Haiku is pretty interesting, though it seems to be focusing more on being BeOS than being a general purpose system (it doesn't have a multi user support for instance, which Sortix does have, though with a few security vulnerabilities). They're all different projects with different goals and strengths and I try to make Sortix better whenever I can do it. I want Sortix to have a really good and inclusive community. I enjoy the coding but I really enjoy putting the whole OS together and building a whole project and community. |