QNX review

[UnixFreak]

Well, I didnt get as much time as expected this weekend to tear into QNX, but I did play with it a bit. I ran it on a P100 with 32 meg ram, a 3.2 HD, with a S3 Virge Card. I setup this system and ran linux on it first, as that is what I am most comfortable with, to make sure the hardware was setup correctly. I got all the bugs worked out, and installed QNX. It froze on installation. Bad Sign. But I got it setup, setup the video and hardware very Quick and easy. The system ran surprisingly fast with this OS, but locked up a lot. I tried adding 128Meg from another machine, and it locked up less. Other than that, it is rather crude, but It is in development, so that is excused, I did not do any modifications, or compiling, but for the most part it is a functional OS, that is rather easy to setup. I havent hammered on it enough to do a full review, but so far, nothing really bad has come up. My summary so far, download it, try it out, dont give up your favorite OS yet, this still has a ways to go. I'll get back to you all soon...

 

[Insomnium]

I've used the single floppy version of QNX that lets you use the QNX os in a diskless workstation. I must say that this little distribution is awesome. A fully functional OS that boots up from a floppy and allows you to have LAN access, and the GUI included with it is pretty cool too. I've never seen a bootable OS this small that works so great.

 

[UnixFreak]

UPDATE: the OS crashed on me, upon booting last night, it locked up a few times, then I managed to get in by disabling DMA, and it scrolled some garbage, and locked up. I cannot blame it on the OS as of yet (way too many variables involved) but I will format the HD and reinstall, and do some further testing. I am hesitant to blame the OS so far. I think I am going to put it on a HD on my main machine, which runs linux perf, very stable, and see what I come up with, and I agree with you insom, the floppy OS thing really impressed me, it works very well, I was amazed. I just need to work some bugs out with their full OS, and see whats going on there. I have to keep in mind, it is a developing OS, not a finished product, but I think it has a lot of potential. I will keep messing with it, now that it has my attention.

 

[FOBSIDE]

where can i find screenshots of the OS?

 

[UnixFreak]

I dont know if there is any on qnx.com, but I will see if I can grab a screen from it, and save it, I dont know if there is a graphics man program in the OS, but they may have one available, if I can, i will put it on my site, and post the link here.

 

[thegroovyguru]

I'd hardly call qnx a developing product..

what version are you using? We've been using it for about 7 years here...