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QNX had a Photon microGUI that is probably superior to X windows (Wayland). It's a shame it never got fully open sourced.
by fouc 5y ago
QNX had a Photon microGUI that is probably superior to X windows (Wayland). It's a shame it never got fully open sourced.
- AceJohnny2 5y agoWhat is QNX's business model nowadays? I understand Ford Sync3 is based on it, but are there other consumer-visible products based on it?
- detaro 5y agoMany other car brands (often just the instrument cluster though). Otherwise probably not much consumer stuff, way more industrial/medical/infrastructure fields.
- nateguchi 5y agoBMW’s iDrive (used in all their production cars since around 2011) uses it
- biggieshellz 5y agoUntil recently, Cisco's IOS-XR was based on the QNX microkernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS_XR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS_XR
- bluedino 5y ago195 million vehicles, and "We are the embedded OS of choice for ventilators, train controls, factory automation systems, medical robots and more."
- kalleboo 5y agoThe navigation/entertainment unit on our Suzuki uses it (I pulled apart the firmware update out of curiosity)
- danachow 5y agoWayland is not related to the X Window System, it is a ground up redesign. And while Microgui is nice it purposely isn’t directly comparable to a compositing window manager.