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Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s where QNX was released as demo version for enthusiasts to play around with? The sheer stability and performance of that 1.3mb-floppy-ready OS still amazes me to this day (came with full gui, 3d models, editor and web browser..!).


>> Message to QNX people; would it be possible to re-instigate the tradition from the late 90s

second this. I was really impressed with QNX - I played with it a bit and stopped when the licensing changed.


They really botched that. QNX went from closed source to free-for-hobbyists to closed source to fully open source to closed source.

This killed open source development efforts for QNX. There used to be a Firefox build for QNX. The underlying QNX OS technology is great, but the organization, which has now been acquired twice, is a pain to deal with.


You might like:

http://kolibrios.org/en/index

Its based on:

http://www.menuetos.net/


I remember that demo too, it was indeed amazing.




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