Following are the three things required before I would 
consider leaving minix:

  shared-text
  virtual-consoles
  9600 serial

Is anyone out there interested or working on these?
I would be willing to take a stab at say virtual 
consoles ala Gordon Irlam, if I could get init/login/ttys
from Ari Lemmke first.  Comments?


Next I want to babble about something I know nothing about: paging

For those of us with small disks, devoting some of our precious space
for a paging partition is undesirable.  Which bring me to ask if we
truly need paging at all.  Is it possible/practical/desirable to
try to page executables from the file system?  A working set size
could be established and when ram got tight, little used pages 
freed for data requirements.  Maybe code blocks should only 
be loaded on demand?  

Perhaps on invocation, a map could be formed indicating where each
block of an executable was on disk.  Of course, if the image file
were subsequently deleted, then you have a problem. 

Since I am as near illiterate on OS paging system designs as
you can get, feel free to enlighten me.