QNX -WOW

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i installed qnx on a 106MB hard drive from my 386. all i can say is wow. look at this:

/dev/hd0t79 208879 135411 73468 65% /

i'm using 60-70MB and i have an OS with a BEAUTIFUL gui, a browser, email client, media player and lots more. i downloaded phirc and i can irc (i would be able to use just about any other client if i had gcc installed). i can open up a terminal and still feel like i'm in an OS that i recognize. it runs sh by default and doesnt have bash, but that would be easy to change. tar, gzip, du, all the normal commands are there, this is really weird but really cool. the gui looks like all the good things from windows xp's gui (come on, the buttons actually do look good) and gets rid of the crap (90% of it), and photon (qnx's gui) has been around for a while. i'll see if i can take a screenshot and link it. this is really cool.

get.qnx.com - try it out, its really cool.

edit: did i mention it automatically detected my video card, network card, and ran dhcp for me? did i mention it has font antialiasing? did i mention (for you QT and GTK haters ) that it has a consistent gui that looks the same across applications?

i am definitely gonna be messing more with this OS in the future. if only i could get the windows to react how i'm used to in blackbox

i dont see how QNX can be ignored, this is perfect for those who dont want to mess with linux or bsd, but dont like windows.

oh, and did i mention you can run it (w/o gui of course) with 500 KILOBYTES of ram?

i would make a screenshot but for some reason the screenshot app wouldnt save (maybe i'm doing something wrong??? hehe) look at images.google.com.

 

[LNXman]

I believe I saw it demo-ed at last year's LINUX expo in S.F. with an IPaQ. It had everything you would want within a hand held O.S. I believe the company is in Denmark, or Holland, but I am not sure. I just was not aware that the O.S. was availabe for a P.C. Then again, nothing is impossible.

Neat O.S. for handheld equipment.

/edit: fixed typo

 

[rip22]

sounds intresting I will try out...

thx

 

[YNos]

this is a nice os, ive used it a few times. i have it running on my Virgin Webplayer now. first heard of it a few years ago, had the demo <they have a striped down version, for embeded machines> that fits on a floppy. can dial-up, or use the network in a single floppy, and it still auto-detects vid.,net., and sound. would definately recommend it to anyone that is seting up a box that has little in the proc/ram area.
Craig "Y Nos"

 

[SinNisTeR]

dling it now

 

[SinNisTeR]

i dled the ~420mb ISO and i burned it, is this supposed to install INSIDE windows?!

 

[ProviaFan]

I tried the floppy disk demo of QNX a while back on my old K6-2. It was quite amazing what it could do with that little of space, but unfortunately I wasn't able to experiment with the internet features due to a "winmodem".
Now that I think of it, I should be able to use this on my other system that connects to the internet through the first via a dlink network card...perhaps I shall download the ISO tonight.

 

[brian_riendeau]

Does QNX include a GUI FTP server and should it work with my Netgear FA310TX? Also, is the browser good enough so that a computer n00b would not have an issue with it?

If it can meet those few requirements, I will have finally found a use for an old P166MMX I just got and reincarnated from a closed storage unit

 

[LongCoolMother]

sounds really good. if i can run a web server with it. im gonna take my mom's 486 that has win 3.1 and stick it on there. cheers

 

[SinNisTeR]

hehe posting from QNX.. man this kind of reminds me of BEOS. pretty sleek!!! ;D