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Yes. I work with QNX6.6 daily. I also worked with QNX6.5 and QNX7.0. It's a real blast to work with the mikrokernel. It's a really cool system, and the kernel s
by Kenji 8y ago
Yes. I work with QNX6.6 daily. I also worked with QNX6.5 and QNX7.0. It's a real blast to work with the mikrokernel. It's a really cool system, and the kernel stability is excellent. Feels good that when a low level driver crashes, your system just goes on as if nothing happened (except, of course, the applications that need this driver). Speaking of drivers, the driver situation on QNX is a bit sad, simply because there are few drivers and the ones that exist aren't as high quality and well tested because QNX is niche. Still, if there was a QNX environment that is as progressive as Linux Ubuntu (concerning GUI, drivers, etc.) and OpenSource, I'd definitely use QNX as my main OS.
- na85 8y ago>QNX is niche What is the most mainstream or perhaps "least niche" of the real time embedded OSes?
- anta40 8y agoHmm... BlackBerry 10, perhaps? https://help.blackberry.com/id/blackberry-security-overview/latest/blackberry-security-overview-html/awi1402930370721.html https://help.blackberry.com/id/blackberry-security-overview/... BlackBerry nowadays is... well let's say the mobile world is basically divided into 2 sides these days: Android and iOS :p
- jjoonathan 8y agoWhat? BlackBerry is realtime? Why?
- monocasa 8y agoSo you have the option of running the baseband on the application processor to save costs if need be, among other reasons.
- ahati 8y agoYou need a hypervisor for that. Qnx brought that later.
- dfox 8y agoYou don't. Symbian EKA2 platforms (eg. S60 3rd edition and later) used to run baseband as userspace threads on same core as user applications. I would not be that surprised if that was main enabler for Nokia E51/52, ie. full-featured smartphone in executive-phone form factor (small and in the first place thin candy-bar).
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- roymurdock 8y agoVxWorks/FreeRTOS There are also more mainstream real time Linux distros e.g. Yocto Linux
- gnulinux 8y agoThere is linux-rt, a fork of linux but I don't think it's competitive in the industry.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoCheck this out: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/ https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
- ahati 8y agoCan not agree more. Once you know qnx, nothing matches up anymore. Linux feels like dinosaur.