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Most OS's out there are unsuitable for making appliances, which this seems aimed at. Right now your choices are a Realtime OS or Linux. Realtime OS don't suppo
by extrapickles 5y ago
Most OS's out there are unsuitable for making appliances, which this seems aimed at.
Right now your choices are a Realtime OS or Linux. Realtime OS don't support making GUIs and Linux has a lot of foot-guns.
Normally, updates to an appliance are one binary blob, this looks to support all of the various pieces having their own blob, and allow the OS to be updated independently from the application binaries, so security updates can happen without the appliance vendor needing to do anything.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoQNX is a microkernel RTOS which supported GUIs... but BlackBerry killed off support for using it on the desktop, and BlackBerry phones died out. IDK what else is using QNX technology now.
- kemonocode 5y agoCars [0], apparently. [0] https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/software-solutions/automotive/qnx-car-platform https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/software-solutions/automotive/...
- jaywalk 5y agoFord uses QNX for SYNC 3, although they are abandoning it and switching to Android Automotive starting with the 2023 model year.
- handrous 5y ago> Realtime OS don't support making GUIs My three favorite GUI operating systems, putting aside software support, are iOS, BeOS, and... Photon on QNX.