QNX 6.3 Released 61
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"
Re:You don't have the slightest idea... (Score:1, Insightful)
Licensing Cost (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:QNX is the bad touch (Score:4, Insightful)
Why are you trying to use QNX as a desktop UNIX workstation?
Re:QNX is the bad touch (Score:3, Insightful)
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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 [qnx.com] (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.
Um, what? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.