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		phicoh on March 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX In the early nineties, Kees Bot and I created a fork of MINIX called Minix-vmd. Some instances of that have been running production for close to 20 years now. Mainly as mail, usenet news, and http server and as routers.

nickpsecurity on March 7, 2016 [–]

How often do the more active ones last between failures? Just curious.

phicoh on March 7, 2016 | [–]

Normally, in the order of many months.

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