"Hey! I’ve seen this one, this is a classic!"
QNX will shift focus in a year or two.
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
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Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
#102I always liked their original UI - Photon[1][2]. Very lightweight and fast. Also a distinct and consistent style. I understand why they dropped it in favor of Qt and later Web technologies, but it's still a big loss. [1] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0SP1.update/com.qnx.... [2] https://www.mikecramer.com/qnx/momentics_nc_docs/photon/prog...
I was expecting to see that, I ended up looking up some old LiteStep themes [1][2] for my fix
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate on this?
They've moved back and forth between being partially source-available and fully closed source at least twice. It's a similar story with usage licenses, with hobbyist and non-commercial access variously being granted and then pulled away multiple times. On at least one occasion, the license was changed overnight leaving a large enthusiast community in the lurch. Given the history, there's every reason to suspect that…
They also had a desktop version you could install at home before.
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#104I learned C on QNX (back then, it booted from a floppy on a PC/XT). It was a nice little Unix-like OS, with all the things you'd expect from a nice little Unix-like OS, plus a reputation of being rock-solid like nothing else.
I think it's a real shame Blackberry didn't manage to etch a third (or fourth - I also loved Palm's WebOS) niche for their QNX-based phones. Blackbberry 10 was an amazing mobile OS.
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#105What compositor is being used?
Hiya! It's Weston. Here's the port:
https://github.com/qnx-ports/build-files/tree/main/ports/wes...
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#106We'll see if it reaches bare metal some time, instead of relying on QEMU(on Ubuntu). In theory I'd be tempted to try, in practice not, because of all the back and forth between changing owners in the past, and resulting policies regarding availability. I'm also very well served by some 'gaming distro', where nothing ever stutters or lags, on almost obsolete hardware, mostly clocked down to 800Mhz, with uptimes of up…
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Photon was what I was hoping for before I clicked the link. One of my favourite GUIs, closely tied with CDE. Photon or not, I hated the period where they sort of moved to canned BSP deployment only, where in 6.5 I could just develop on a live system. This is nice.
Me too, although it's been a long time since Photon. "This environment runs as a virtual machine, using QEMU on Ubuntu. To try the image, you'll need: Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04." So it doesn't boot on bare metal? Maybe they're trying to get away from needing Windows. The previous recommended development environment was cross-compilation from Windows. The big news here is that they have a reasonable non-commercial license…
Bare metal is on the short-term roadmap!
Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
#108We'll see if it reaches bare metal some time, instead of relying on QEMU(on Ubuntu). In theory I'd be tempted to try, in practice not, because of all the back and forth between changing owners in the past, and resulting policies regarding availability. I'm also very well served by some 'gaming distro', where nothing ever stutters or lags, on almost obsolete hardware, mostly clocked down to 800Mhz, with uptimes of up…
Bare metal is on the short-term roadmap!
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
Their main website is a black page. No idea if someone bought the brand or if it is the original people behind this 40 year old project. Both the wikipedia and the website only mention "canada" in passing but no information is given on company and people behind it. Nothing that can be verified.
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+ years old, having come out of an OS course at the University of Waterloo. I work with a lot of people who are celebrating 25-35 year anniversaries -- very much still a lot of the same engineering and product talent here through all of the transitions.