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The Status of the QNX OS

Posted by michael on from the how-do-you-pronounce-that-again? dept.

Eugenia writes "OS enthusiast Thom Holwerda gave a spin to the latest version of QNX RTOS, a very capable OS that unfortunately doesn't get a lot of press. With the recent sale of QNX Software to Harman International the future of the free-for-personal-usage version of the RTOS is uncertain. Nevertheless, the article presents quite a few aspects of the OS, including an introduction of the Neutrino kernel, installation, the Photon MicroGUI, hardware support, usability and more."

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  1. Whatever by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "a very capable OS that unfortunately doesn't get a lot of press."

    It gets press among people that care about real time operating systems... dunno what kind of press you're hoping for.

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  2. What?! by passthecrackpipe · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are an idiot. Hurd is not a prequel to QNX - first of all, QNX has been an actual product for some time now. Secondly, just because hurd and QNX both share some high-level, overall design characteristics, doesn't make QNX Stallmans' bitch. "I thought of it first" doesn't count, because the idea of microkernels goes way back before either. finally, if you would have bothered to read TFA, you would have realised that QNX is not unix (hey, where have I heard that before) in that a whole lot of stuff simply works different. Unix and microkernels don't play nice together. Idiot.

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  3. Re:The *amazing* 1.44 MB Demo Disk by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone modded this down as a troll? WTF! Did I piss someone off, and if so, how?

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