MINIX's longtime mascot is a raccoon, chosen because it is agile, smart, usually friendly, and eats bugs. Credit: Iwona Usakiewicz / Andrij Borys Associates While Linux is well known, its direct ancestor, MINIX, is now 30 and still quite spry for such aged software. Its story and how it and Linux got started is not well known, and there are perhaps some lessons to be learned from MINIX's developme