MinC Is Not Cygwin

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Welcome to the MinC home page. MinC is a Unix emulator for Windows, based on the OpenBSD operating system. MinC was written to help children at vocational education learn Linux without the hassle of virtualization. It runs on all versions of Windows, except Win95 and Win98.

I have made big leaps forward with the new version, compared to the previous one. Encryption now fully works, so you can make use of all the networking programs. Also, it now ships with a nice installer.

Puffy, the OpenBSD mascotte

Install

To install MinC you no longer have to copy it "by hand". You can now use the new installation wizard. Download the current version by clicking the link: minc-6.1.exe.

After installation you will see a new icon called Console on your Desktop. This starts the MinC terminal.

Use

The current MinC realease contains the following functions:

  • All Unix standard commands, like: ls, du, ps, df, find, grep, awk, mkdir, chmod, chown, wc, top, diff, etc.
  • Editing: less, vi, nano, hexedit
  • Compression: unzip, gzip, bzip2, xz
  • Networking: route, ifconfig, ping, ftp, ssh, scp, telnet, wget, curl, lynx, mutt, BitchX
  • Development: vim, git, ImageMagick

Services and daemons, like Apache (httpd), Sendmail and sshd are not yet available, but will be released as soon as possible.

If you like to compile code for MinC, you can install the toolchain: buildtools-6.1.exe The package contains BSD libc, GNU binutils, GNU cc, GNU make and vim.

Donate

Writing the kernel took a lot of time. To help me finish MinC, you can make a donation via PayPal. Any amount is welcome.

Let me know if you wish to have a particular software included in the next release. Send an e-mail to dboland@xs4all.nl.