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QNX 6.3 Released
Lufi2 writes "QNX 6.3 was released on 3 Jun.
New features include accelerated 3D, the Voyager 2 browser which supports HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 now, SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) and packet filtering with NAT! GCC 3.3.1 is also included. If it's not a typo, the Professional version costs $8695/user o_O
Usual QNX NC (non-commercial = free beer) LiveCD is not available on the download area yet (As of 9 Jun)... But it sounds very promising"
You deserve your Informative moderation (I was wondering what QNX was too!), but in general you should try to avoid feeding trolls like that. That he was trolling, rather than merely ignorant, is obvious from the way he describes BSD as a "Linux clone".
Just FYI, that licensing cost is most likely a developer per-seat cost with some redistribution allowed.
As far as per-user stuff, it's likely that most people use QNX in one form or another every day without knowing it. From cable boxes to ATMs, traffic lights, etc.
QNX is put in places where failure cannot happen. At all.
Most normal stuff you expect to find on a linux install is either broken in some way or missing entirely. It doesn't even have bash!!
Why are you trying to use QNX as a desktop UNIX workstation?
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
We needed a real time OS (or at least close to it) so thats why its running on QNX. The QNX box is communicating with embedded microcontrollers over an external bus.
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My preference would have been an old Sparc box running SunOS.
The words, "non-realtime OS" keep coming to mind...
They deviate from standards and make you have to dig to find where that deviation is. Is having man pages too much to ask??
Fair enough. But it *is* an embedded system. Footprint is everything. My guess is that you're simply not used to the QNX way of doing things and are thus frustrated. Many of the QNX deviations are actually quite sensible, and some of them are actually choices made by the person customizing the system.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to use offline docs (or at least installable docs) and stop expecting dumb things like BASH on an embedded system. If you don't stop complaining, your boss may decide to give you VxWorks (note the oxymoron here) as a punishment.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Not to be overzealous, but if Linux is such a horribly done clone of UNIX, then why is it the most widespread and most used *NIX-esque operating system around, even more than BSD? No, seriously, please tell me.