Even if you actually are paid for doing 'industrial batch solution'-whatever, I have serious doubts you've ever used a QNX product.
Listen to what you're saying "odd clock speed"? As friggin if. I've used QNX2, QNX 4.23->4.25, and RtP on a plethora of processors, odd and even.
Poor support for serial and parallel? If you're going to make something up, make up something that people will believe. You say RtP is nothing new? It's in pre-release, how newer do you want? Stay off the pipe dude, and next time, if you want people to believe your FUD, use a spellchecker!
All good points. It would be nice to actually have a serious discussion on Slashdot about articles without defining rumour and heresay as fact. Aren't sites like this about discussion, not statements of FUD? (/me gets off of the soapbox)
I don't recall anyone ever putting Linux and RtP into a ring and saying "Fight!", so everyone should relax. If there's anyone who should worry, it's that company that makes that thing that has that blue screen all the time. You know who I mean.
woah woah woah! Who said anyone's fixing source code? A year ago Slashdot users wanted QNX to open source the OS - now they are, and you're still not happy.
P.S. Can anyone make an intelligent point on/. anymore without resorting to sarcasm, cursing and name calling? It really degrades how people perceive your intelligence level.
Can someone moderate this up please? It seems to be a fairly decent explanation for not handing out kernel source.
On a different note; I'd wait for an actual release (not a pre-release) before saying that application source code isn't distributed.
Why was this modded down to 0? It's completely true.
"Dan Dodge and Gordon Bell invented QNX. Dan Hilderbrant was the hacker behind the Demo Disk. It was originally named QUNIX, (Quick UNIX)."
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Why are most pro-QNX comments modded down to 0 when they in fact, are correcting misinformation provided by the original poster?
Who mods the moderators?
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Pick something other than x86:
http://www.qnx.com/products/os/neutrino.html#CPU
Did anyone see Stan Lee? He was in the 'jellyfish' scene. Right after the kid poking the jellyfish, the camera pans, and you see Stan Lee doing something...
Talking about the cracked crypt() function is absolutely ridiculous. For starters, it was fixed internally a week before the posting on Slashdot (i.e. the developers found out about it and started fixing it - forget the conspiracy theory). It was only the crypt() function for QNX4 that was cracked. The flavour of QNX that is being given away it Neutrino, with a different type of crypt that isn't cracked. On a side note, having a way to crack the crypt doesn't do a damn load of good on an ATM, or almost any sort of machine that has QNX on it. On the other hand, if you *do* see an ATM, or heart monitor that has an exposed floppy drive and keyboard, feel free to haxor that thing for all it's worth.
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Even if you actually are paid for doing 'industrial batch solution'-whatever, I have serious doubts you've ever used a QNX product. Listen to what you're saying "odd clock speed"? As friggin if. I've used QNX2, QNX 4.23->4.25, and RtP on a plethora of processors, odd and even. Poor support for serial and parallel? If you're going to make something up, make up something that people will believe. You say RtP is nothing new? It's in pre-release, how newer do you want? Stay off the pipe dude, and next time, if you want people to believe your FUD, use a spellchecker!
All good points. It would be nice to actually have a serious discussion on Slashdot about articles without defining rumour and heresay as fact. Aren't sites like this about discussion, not statements of FUD? (/me gets off of the soapbox) I don't recall anyone ever putting Linux and RtP into a ring and saying "Fight!", so everyone should relax. If there's anyone who should worry, it's that company that makes that thing that has that blue screen all the time. You know who I mean.
woah woah woah! Who said anyone's fixing source code? A year ago Slashdot users wanted QNX to open source the OS - now they are, and you're still not happy. P.S. Can anyone make an intelligent point on /. anymore without resorting to sarcasm, cursing and name calling? It really degrades how people perceive your intelligence level.
Can someone moderate this up please? It seems to be a fairly decent explanation for not handing out kernel source. On a different note; I'd wait for an actual release (not a pre-release) before saying that application source code isn't distributed.
Why was this modded down to 0? It's completely true. "Dan Dodge and Gordon Bell invented QNX. Dan Hilderbrant was the hacker behind the Demo Disk. It was originally named QUNIX, (Quick UNIX)."
Why are most pro-QNX comments modded down to 0 when they in fact, are correcting misinformation provided by the original poster? Who mods the moderators?
Pick something other than x86: http://www.qnx.com/products/os/neutrino.html#CPU
Did anyone see Stan Lee? He was in the 'jellyfish' scene. Right after the kid poking the jellyfish, the camera pans, and you see Stan Lee doing something...
Talking about the cracked crypt() function is absolutely ridiculous. For starters, it was fixed internally a week before the posting on Slashdot (i.e. the developers found out about it and started fixing it - forget the conspiracy theory). It was only the crypt() function for QNX4 that was cracked. The flavour of QNX that is being given away it Neutrino, with a different type of crypt that isn't cracked. On a side note, having a way to crack the crypt doesn't do a damn load of good on an ATM, or almost any sort of machine that has QNX on it. On the other hand, if you *do* see an ATM, or heart monitor that has an exposed floppy drive and keyboard, feel free to haxor that thing for all it's worth.