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.
MinC is a tiny kernel which runs on Windows. The rest of the software was taken from OpenBSD, version 6.1. This means that by installing MinC, you run OpenBSD on your Windows machine at native speed.
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.
The current MinC realease contains the following functions:
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, vim and git.
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.
MinC works well with antivirus software, such as the built-in Windows Defender or Kaspersky.
In some cases you need to temporarily disable antivirus before downloading and installing (Kaspersky). After that, MinC works fine.
In other cases, MinC installs well, but the antivirus does not let you run its programs. You need to exclude the MinC root directory from scanning (f-secure).
MinC can be integrated into MS Visual Sudio Code as a terminal. Put following snippet in your personal settings.json file:
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
"MinC": {
"path": "C:\\MinC\\sbin\\bsd.exe"
}
}
If you installed MinC at another location, make sure the underlined part is correct.