Editing Minix (section)

==Relationship with Linux==

===Early influence===
[[Linus Torvalds]] used and appreciated MINIX,<ref>{{cite news |last=Moody |first=Glyn |date=2015-08-25 |title=How Linux was born, as told by Linus Torvalds himself |url=http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/08/how-linux-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/ |newspaper=Ars Technica |access-date=2015-08-25 |archive-date=25 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825165300/http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/08/how-linux-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but his design deviated from the MINIX architecture in significant ways, most notably by employing a [[monolithic kernel]] instead of a [[microkernel]]. This was disapproved of by Tanenbaum in the [[Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate]]. Tanenbaum explained again his rationale for using a microkernel in May 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os|title=Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate: Part II|date=12 May 2006|access-date=2 August 2011 |first=Andrew S. |last=Tanenbaum |author-link1=Andrew S. Tanenbaum}}</ref>

Early [[Linux kernel]] development was done on a MINIX host system, which led to [[Linux]] inheriting various features from MINIX, such as the [[MINIX file system]]. [[Eric Raymond]] claimed that Linus hasn't actually written Linux from scratch, but rather reused source code of MINIX itself to have working codebase. As the development progressed, MINIX code was gradually phased out completely.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Eric|last1=Raymond|author-link1=Eric Raymond|date=1999|title=The Cathedral & the Bazaar|title-link=The Cathedral and the Bazaar|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]]|page=33|isbn=1-56592-724-9}}</ref>

===''Samizdat'' claims===
In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book named ''[[Samizdat (book)|Samizdat]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://adti.net/samizdat/brown.reply.june.04.html |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20041022073106/http://www.adti.net/samizdat/brown.reply.june.04.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=22 October 2004 |title=Samizdat's critics… Brown replies |date=4 June 2004 |access-date=2 August 2011 |publisher=Alexis de Tocqueville Institution |first=Kenneth |last=Brown |author-link=Kenneth Brown (author)}}</ref> These accusations were rebutted universally—most prominently by Tanenbaum, who strongly criticised Brown and published a long rebuttal on his own personal Web site, also claiming that Brown was funded by [[Microsoft]].<ref name=who-wrote-linux-notes/><ref name=minix3-faq/>