1. Euphoria under Minix ?
LS,
I have been following this forum for a while and think that the Euphoria
language is very nice.
It certainly deserves more attention than it now gets.
Recently Minix 3 was anounced and I thought it would be good if Euphoria would
run in this OS
(just in case it really takes off).
Is there anyone who already has experience with Euphoria under Minix ?
Regards,
Lucien Ceder
2. Re: Euphoria under Minix ?
- Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com>
Apr 09, 2006
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Last edited Apr 10, 2006
Lucien Ceder wrote:
>
> LS,
>
> I have been following this forum for a while and think that the Euphoria
> language
> is very nice.
> It certainly deserves more attention than it now gets.
>
> Recently Minix 3 was anounced and I thought it would be good if Euphoria would
> run in this OS
> (just in case it really takes off).
>
> Is there anyone who already has experience with Euphoria under Minix ?
>
> Regards,
> Lucien Ceder
Wasn't it Minix that inspired Linus Torvalds to develop the Linux kernel back in
1991?
Unless Minix has a Linux binary layer it is unlikely Euphoria could run on it.
As for porting, how many Minix users are there today? Better yet, how many of
them would be interested in a non-GPL/BSD licensed programming language?
Regards,
Vincent
3. Re: Euphoria under Minix ?
- Posted by Lucien Ceder <LLCeder at planet.nl>
Apr 09, 2006
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Last edited Apr 10, 2006
Hi Vincent,
Yes; that's the same Minix. Although now version 3 is meant for production use
and
contrary to versions 1 and 2 not only as a classroom example of an Operating
System.
A lot of software is currently being ported from Linux to Minux, so I assume
that it
is a relatively easy task.
I have no idea how many users there currently are; There were a lot of downloads
(over 50.000) just after the first release of Minix 3. As for the interest users
may
have in a non-GPL/BSD licensed programming language: people are using it now in
Dos,
Windows, Linux, BSD. Occasionally I see questions about ports to the MAC
(another OS
that may grow bigger in the future), so there is already an interest in having
it
available in many environments.
I think that the more platforms Euphoria runs on, the more interesting it
becomes to
use it for projects.
Minix is currently nowhere as sophisticated as Linux, BSD, MAC or even Windows.
It
just looks like a new interesting environment that breathes the atmosphere of
Linux in the begin days: more fun to play with than to consider using it for
controlling the next space shuttle. More info is at http://www.minix3.org.
Regards,
Lucien
