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I must be confusing it with openqnx. Does it still require a Blackberry phone for email apps and the like?

But Linux wasn't coded in a forward looking fashion.

Absolutely true. The thing is we've been slowly moving to something else; samba volume shares/sshfs, java/.net/mono, virtualization, etc. Do we actually understand what is slowly happening everywhere?

The age of single machine OS is coming to an end. Even MS sees this from what I've read about Midori. I believe the future brings us a distributed OS even if it were run on a single machine. We've already got microkernel OS with services distributed throughout the net (or on a local machine) and it would be trivial to hack virtual memory subsystem to move the memory pages and process state tables around the net or integrate something like beowulf into every kernel by default. Start the local process, migrate it somewhere on the planet before shutting the local machine down and just migrate it back in the morning. Or start the process and migrate it to best available match in the available cloud.

Add some crypto, ACLs and signing mechanism, sprinkle with a bit of good will and voila!

1.44MB. Web browser, modem/network support, blah blah.

Pretty neat at the time. Heck, it's still neat.

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

That was the one and only time I ever used it.

I remember reading that Dan Hildebrand, the man behind that disk, passed away a few years back.

http://www.openqnx.com/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=298

QNX. Duh.

QNX isn't a Linux clone. QNX is a POSIX based OS that has a history that goes back a decade before Linux was even a glimmer in Linus's eye.

There is nothing given away for "free" either, there is an evaluation that is free - much the same as vmware has a 30 day eval of their product. After that 30 days, Neutrino will fall back into a more limited mode but will remain operational (like it was with NC before 6.3.0).

www.qnx.com

www.qnxzone.com

www.openqnx.com

Some reading to bring you up to speed on things.

No, I think software makers must be able to continue making these disclaimers, for two reasons:

• If they couldn't, no one would ever release free (as in beer) software anymore. Would you want to assume that level of liability for no gain?
• Even in commercial software, it would slow down everything tremendously. Testing everything to the level that they test life-supporting systems is just not reasonable.

Instead, here's a radical idea: understand that software with such disclaimers was never intended to be used in situations where its failure could kill someone. So don't.

There is software out there that does not have blanket safety disclaimers. I believe QNX Neutrino does not, for example. I know they're using it in safety-critical systems at nuclear power plants.

If you read the QNX community site, you will see that cdm is very active in the forums, answering questions from QNX users. For the other QNX employees that do "say" something, the number of posts are far behind. cdm is also "full time" on the #qnx irc channel at irc.qnxstart.com. Drop by if you wanna say hi to him :)

For those of you not familiar with QNX, the Planet Mirror has old versions. You can find the mirrors of the latest version (6.2.1) at openqnx.com

here is the linkified http://www.openqnx.com/Article116.html