Brief Description: Professor of computer science, author of Minix
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Andy Tanenbaum - Andrew S. Tanenbaum in full - is professor of Computer Science in the department of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands.
In his own right the "Father of MINIX," he is perhaps best known for the so-called "Who wrote Linux?" kerfuffle, in which an anti-Linux lobbyist - Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution - twisted his words to make it sound as if he'd denied that Linus Torvalds was the true author of Linux.
MINIX (now in v 2.0) is a free UNIX clone that is available with all the source code. Due to its small size, microkernel-based design, and ample documentation, it's well suited to people who want to run a UNIX-like system on their personal computer and learn about how such systems work inside. "It is quite feasible for a person unfamiliar with operating system internals to understand nearly the entire system with a few months of use and study," says Tanenbaum.
Since its introduction in January 1987, there has been a large an active USENET newsgroup about MINIX, comp.os.minix. Tens of thousands of messages have been posted to this group so far. These messages have contained questions, bug reports, bug fixes, and new software. New users can ask questions and join discussions there.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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