[Wolves] Hello - first post from me ! OS teaching

[Tim Childe]

Not to bothered about the sudents messing things up - they'll just get
a lot of experience reinstalling !!!!!

Minix ring a very faint bell, I'll have a look at that - thanks.

Tim.C

On 5/5/05, Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tim Childe wrote:
> 
> >We're hoping to use Linux to teach Operating Systems, as you can
> >actually get into the cogs of linux where M$ hides everything in the
> >depths nowadays.
> >
> >Tim.C
> >IT Lecturer
> >Halesowen College
> >
> >
> I don't want to put you off Linux but if you really want your students
> to start hacking the OS, have you considered Minix? It's a bit more
> manageable in size and it was designed for teaching. You can run it
> under Bochs on Linux too.
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
> 
> Woo
> 
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Tim.C