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Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
06-07-2002, 05:02 PM
I've seen a couple of LNOers talking about QNX. It's a *nix, right?

I'm completly green on it. Where could I get it? How does it differ from other OSes?
Frith
06-08-2002, 04:19 PM
I think QNX is a RTOS (real-time OS, or so they say), and it's intended to be used on small devices such as handheld computers.

It can be used as a desktop OS but it's not really recommended, as I don't believe that there's a whole lot of software available for it.

Just give me an OS with Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, X-Chat, the GIMP, and vim, and I'll be quite happy (hey, the end user doesn't really need much more than that to do most things).
http://www.qnx.com
The Whizzard
06-08-2002, 05:59 PM
Holly Cow!! QNX has come along way since I last used it a year ago. I haven't D/L it yet but the ISO grew from about 100MB to 200MB and you can also get Mozilla (http://www.qnx.com/developer/download/free/), another ISO withcontributed software (http://www.qnx.com/developer/download/contrib/), and some decent games. (http://www.qnx.com/developer/download/contrib/violent_games.html)

I'll be checking this out soon!! ;)
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
06-09-2002, 12:49 AM
Yeah... I heard somebody, I forgot who, was talking about how much they liked using QNX. When I checked out the homepage for it, they seemed to lean towards usage on small devices, but they did mention it was useful on desktops as well.

Next time I get near a high bandwidth connection, I think I may download it...
Frith
06-09-2002, 02:29 AM
man, QNX sucks big time as a desktop OS.

there is almost no software available for Office, text, or graphics editing, Mozilla 1.0 can't render images correctly, programs crash left and right...and you have to install the X Window System and the GTK/QT toolkits to get any decent apps.

at least it doesn't suck as much as BeOS. Mozilla brought that OS to its knees.

[ 10 June 2002: Message edited by: Frith ]
sasKuatch
06-11-2002, 06:07 PM
i dl'ed QNX RTP, and besides the lack of software, it was ok.

one thing i have against most *nixes is that the utilities aren't quite as nice as the GNU equivalents, so it's mostly linux for me
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
06-13-2002, 03:39 PM
Originally posted by sasKuatch:
<STRONG>
one thing i have against most *nixes is that the utilities aren't quite as nice as the GNU equivalents, so it's mostly linux for me</STRONG>

Why is that? I would think that maybe the programmers of the other non-GNU *nixes could take a few cues form their GNU counterparts...

It always messes me up when I try to use GNU style '--option' commands on say, a Solaris box... :o