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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. Anyone remember the QNX Demo Disk? by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Interesting


    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

  2. LinuxBIOS? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lots of people bought firesale "Audreys" from 3Com, which run QNX on a wall-mountable VGA touchscreen + Geode CPU + Flash mem (+ modem, speakers/soundcard, etc). The barrier to porting Linux to it was supposedly the lack of a working LinuxBIOS - the QNX bootloader wouldn't boot Linux (RAMdisk image etc). 2 years later, is there still a possibility of Audrey Linux?

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    make install -not war

  3. QNX by Is0m0rph · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We're running QNX 4.25 for our control software on our newest tool. It runs well and can handle a lot of system control with not a lot of computer power. 800mhz P3 QNX 4.25 box can handle hundreds of IO operations, logging of virtually everything, data sampling, SECS/GEM, etc with very little CPU used. When the control system is upgraded we'll be running 6.0.