I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
 professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
 since april, and is starting to get ready.  I'd like any feedback on
 things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
 (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
 among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
 This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
 I'd like to know what features most people would want.  Any suggestions
 are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them  

Linus (torva...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS.  Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
 It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
 will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have  .

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