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Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

xvilka wrote: post #38
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One of my favourite GUIs, closely tied with CDE. In case you're not aware: CDE is still around, open source, and runs on modern unix-likes.

There is also a FWWM[1] "skin" that doesn't require long time abandoned C code - NsCDE[2]. It still requires X server (just like CDE itself) which becomes rarity these days. They need to port it to Wayland eventually. [1] https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3 [2] https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

Eh, there's always https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback for that.

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by ykl »

ofrzeta wrote: post #40
mkj wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People in the industry would know that QNX has been around since the 90s (or 80s?) as a very solid embedded GUI platform. They're a company that doesn't need to prove their credentials. I'd agree using qnx.software rather than qnx.com is kinda dumb though.

Sure, it's been around 40 years, but it's not like old companies haven't changed owners many times. So, for instance, QNX is now part of Harman which is part of Samsung.

I thought that QNX was acquired by / is still developed by BlackBerry?

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by Lammy »

bflesch wrote: post #13

Marketing looks nice, but why do they make it so hard to build trust? If it's a software focused on developers it's really important to establish trust. The page on https://devblog.qnx.com/about/ does not show what kind of company it is, who is behind it, and where they are located. Should I expect backdoors? Is it an elaborate front by north korea? Who will be able to remotely execute code on this operating system?…

> Should I expect backdoors? Is it an elaborate front by north korea? Who will be able to remotely execute code on this operating system?

Stop sowing FUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by viraptor »

sedatk wrote: post #10
ronsor wrote: post #9

This is a major throwback to the QNX demo disk, which bundled a browser and desktop environment onto a single floppy disk!

It was mind blowing at the time because Linux required at least 4-5 floppies to set up a text-only base system while QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB.

When was that? You can still run from a single floppy https://github.com/Steve3184/floppinux and some form of that was available for ages.

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by ofrzeta »

ykl wrote: post #43
ofrzeta wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, it's been around 40 years, but it's not like old companies haven't changed owners many times. So, for instance, QNX is now part of Harman which is part of Samsung.

I thought that QNX was acquired by / is still developed by BlackBerry?

Seems you are right. See how complicated it is? :)

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by fouc »

sedatk wrote: post #10
ronsor wrote: post #9

This is a major throwback to the QNX demo disk, which bundled a browser and desktop environment onto a single floppy disk!

It was mind blowing at the time because Linux required at least 4-5 floppies to set up a text-only base system while QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB.

Photon microGUI was included in that, and it blew my mind that you could literally kill and restart Photon without disturbing any of the GUI apps that were still running.

They also mailed a manual along with the demo disk, and I was amazed that QNX had built-in network bonding, amongst lots of other neat features. At the the time I was using Slackware & the linux kernel version was still 1.x, I don't think bonding came to linux until 2.x?

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by wwweston »

Quessy wrote: post #36

Glad to see QNX still progressing. I worked there as an intern twice in Ottawa and they're pretty damn good. Great place to work imo. I met some of the kernel devs there. Had the priviledge of working with one and he taught and demoed some of the kernel features to me. They gave us interns a full summer course on kernels, C programming, OS and some hardware. Fun times.

Sometimes I wish I could do this for mid career sabbatical.

Re: QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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Post by fouc »

viraptor wrote: post #45
sedatk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was mind blowing at the time because Linux required at least 4-5 floppies to set up a text-only base system while QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB.

When was that? You can still run from a single floppy https://github.com/Steve3184/floppinux and some form of that was available for ages.

He meant with X & web browser and so on. The QNX disk had gui + browser and a few other gui apps.
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