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JohnAtQNX

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About JohnAtQNX

Howdy! I've been with BlackBerry/QNX for over 17 years in various roles and I now manage Developer Relations for QNX. You can find me here, on Reddit, at our open-source repository at gitlab.com/qnx, and on our developer blog at devblog.qnx.com. Any opinions I express are my own and not those of QNX.

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    Comment #46404662

    QNX is not a GPOS, so you wouldn't. I mean you _could_, but the real benefit here is hidden within: with the toolchain now included in this image, folks working on QNX projects can…

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    Comment #46404636

    We plan to host prebuilts in the new year to make it easier to download/run.

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    Comment #46404618

    In some cases it could also be an Android guest running as a VM on the QNX Hypervisor, where there are multiple guests (QNX, Android, Linux) making use of the same HW.

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    Comment #46402360

    There's been talk about this on Reddit too, where our chief architect of QNX 8 broke down the decision. He mentioned it was ultimately a tough decision, but that in the end the con…

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    Comment #46402338

    GTK support for sure, but also Qt, Godot, and others. Commercially, also support for Unity & Unreal.

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    Comment #46402310

    We're definitely a secret ingredient brand... hiding in products you use every day!

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    Comment #46402295

    Well hey, we're hiring! qnx.com/careers!

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    Comment #46402294

    We still do that! In fact, the _QNX From The Board Up_ series on the developer blog is a small rip from that training content, adapted by Mr Brown. I hope we'll get all of it out t…

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    Comment #46402278

    Hiya! The bulk of my colleagues and I are in Ottawa and Waterloo Ontario Canada. We're a division of BlackBerry Limited, and have been for about 15 years. QNX itself is about 45+ y…

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    Comment #46402236

    Bare metal is on the short-term roadmap!

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    Comment #46402234

    Bare metal is on the short-term roadmap!

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    Comment #46402223

    Hiya! It's Weston. Here's the port: https://github.com/qnx-ports/build-files/tree/main/ports/wes...

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    Comment #45493910

    Yes! Like podman, we have an OCI-compliant container solution [0]. I haven't tried to play with it myself yet, but details are at the link. [0] https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/produc…

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    Comment #45493870

    Yes there is. It's a big priority here. Changes like this take time and a careful balance though, but we're working on it!

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    Comment #45492380

    Yeah, I get that and appreciate it. I feel the same way. We're working on changing it to be a 1-click process.

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    Comment #45492304

    "QNX *is light weight, but not a lightweight." FIFY :)

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    Comment #45492232

    Keep in mind there's a distict possibility that the Android you see as a driver is running as a guest on a QNX Hypervisor system ;)

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    Comment #45492197

    We're in 270+ million vehicles on the road today, 1 in 7 globally (and growing!) It's awesome going to shows and reminding people that every time they turn their key (okay, okay: _…

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    Comment #45492146

    Some of my colleagues and I visited the class with the UW CSC in the Spring.. They said something like half of the students drop out in the first week after learning how much work …

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    Comment #45492121

    Thank you! :)

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    Comment #45492117

    Hey fellow QNXer! =) Agreed, I regularly learn so much from our dev talent.

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    Comment #45492037

    It's funny.. We've spent a lot of time at universities this year, and that's the same reaction we sometimes get there when we say we're over 45 years old and have nearly 1000 staff…

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    Comment #45492009

    I have some awesome recordings of Dan Dodge talks.. they are definitely entertaining :) FWIW we're growing, hiring, and expanding, these days!

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    Comment #45491979

    From someone who worked on PlayBook: THANK YOU! It was a tight little machine with a great browser and awesome audio for the time. And it slid right into my back jeans pocket. Thos…