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		synchronise on July 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An architectural overview of the GNU Hurd What if.... there was an effort to replace the Mach kernel with Minix3? Or if Debian decided to do a Debian GNU/Minux3 release?

justincormack on July 15, 2015 [–]

Minix is basically ABI compatible with NetBSD, so going from a Debian/kNetBSD port to Minix would be easy. There was one once, way back https://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ but its dead.

Not sure it makes a lot of sense though.

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