Well, it “inspired” Linux because Linus was unhappy with Minix. Linus wanted UNIX and Minix was not what he was looking for. I don’t think emulating Minix itself was ever his goal. He chose the Minix file system originally but this was just pragmatic as that is what his drive was formatted with.

The earliest versions of Linux were written on Minix though. Credit where credit is due.

Interestingly, Linus was unaware of BSD. He has said that, if he had known about it, he may never have written Linux to begin with.