> I have just seen a Minix ad at sourceforge.net and I was kind of
> surprised: isn't Minix for research/education only?
> The ad featured the line "Smaller than Linux", suggesting that Minix is
> somehow an alternative to Linux. So far I have been under the
> impression that Minix is not meant to be a primary OS i.e. something
> you actually want to run in a production environment.

http://www.minix3.org/
Minix 3's official site give some targeted areas and features.