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QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by balou23 »

JohnAtQNX wrote: post #30
johndoe0815 wrote: post #3

To add some details - the source code for QNX was available from 2007 until the takeover by RIM/Blackberry in 2010. So do you plan to offer access to QNX source code again in the future? https://www.qnx.com/news/pr_2471_1.html

Don't hold me to timelines, but we're definitely headed in the direction of being more open and transparent. We're hearing that this is important to our customers and the community alike. Stay tuned!

So from what I gather, this is the third time you want to be open and transparent with your sources?

Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by jandrese »

elcritch wrote: post #42
Jtsummers wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

127.1 is the same as 127.0.0.1. 0 bytes are inserted based on the following: x -> 0.0.0.x x.y -> x.0.0.y x.y.z -> x.y.0.z

Similar rules apply to ipv6 addresses as well.

IPv6 at least sensibly has a different delimiter for when you are eliding zeros.

Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by JohnAtQNX »

j1mmie wrote: post #44

I'm interested in building a Unity game for Raspberry Pi 4. Does QNX have good graphics support for RPi currently?

That's awesome! It's decent, yes. The starter image comes with a graphical app launcher you can check out. I'll poke the team about releasing the source for that launcher soon (I think they wanted to clean it up so it's a good sample).

Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by JohnAtQNX »

throw0101a wrote: post #8

Does it come on a 1.44MB floppy (image)? * http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html * https://winworldpc.com/product/qnx/144mb-demo * https://crackberry.com/heres-how-qnx-looked-1999-running-144...

Not this time! =). But today's floppy equivalent is a micro-SD card.. Right? Right?

Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by [deleted] »

JohnAtQNX wrote: post #49
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #15

What would be a good hobbyist project to learn QNX?

We have a couple of students working on bringing up the hardware in the Pimoroni Trilobot kit on QNX, but adding some ML to the camera for some kind of autonomous steering perhaps. It will be the perfect blend of intensive processing (camera+ML) with hardware control (short high-priority interrupts). (P.S. hope to open-source this when they are done, along with some blog posts or tutorials -- stay tuned.) Separately,…

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Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by JohnAtQNX »

java-man wrote: post #5

This is a good move! In my opinion, any platform should be available for free for any non-commercial purpose. This is how people get started, and this is how the platform proliferates. I might even suggest going a bit further: provide some limited support for non-commercial users, for example, make it super-easy to file a bug. But otherwise, it's a win-win for both the free tier (students, hobbyists) and the corporat…

This is great feedback, thanks! I absolutely want to find ways to provide some support -- a bug portal is a fantastic idea. For now we're accepting issue reports though gitlab.com/qnx.

Re: QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image

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Post by JohnAtQNX »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #20

For attracting more developers can you compile a comarison table with the benefits of QNX versus competitors? The existing information out there is of questionable reliability and probably out of date too...

This is a good blog post idea. I'll get it on our backlog.
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