QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
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2 hours ago
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| devblog.qnx.com
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ronsor
20 minutes ago
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This is a major throwback to the QNX demo disk, which bundled a browser and desktop environment onto a single floppy disk!
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sedatk
14 minutes ago
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It was mind blowing at the time because Linux required at least 4-5 floppies to set up a text-only base system while QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB.
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ngcc_hk
1 minute ago
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Totally miss this.
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OsrsNeedsf2P
53 minutes ago
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Did I just wake up from a coma? QNX desktop? Wayland XFCE? What is going on here
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donatj
49 minutes ago
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Bring back Photon. It was dang near perfect.
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wowczarek
22 minutes ago
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Photon was what I was hoping for before I clicked the link. One of my favourite GUIs, closely tied with CDE.

Photon or not, I hated the period where they sort of moved to canned BSP deployment only, where in 6.5 I could just develop on a live system. This is nice.

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LargoLasskhyfv
1 hour ago
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We'll see if it reaches bare metal some time, instead of relying on QEMU(on Ubuntu).

In theory I'd be tempted to try, in practice not, because of all the back and forth between changing owners in the past, and resulting policies regarding availability.

I'm also very well served by some 'gaming distro', where nothing ever stutters or lags, on almost obsolete hardware, mostly clocked down to 800Mhz, with uptimes of up to 150 days. More isn't really useful anyways, because of updates.

But hey, Wayland! On QNX! With XFCE on top of that! Who would have thought?

What about photonic Plasma instead of some Generic ToolKit?

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yjftsjthsd-h
49 minutes ago
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> We'll see if it reaches bare metal some time, instead of relying on QEMU(on Ubuntu).

They do list "A native Desktop image on Raspberry Pi" under What's Next, so hopefully soon:)

> In theory I'd be tempted to try, in practice not, because of all the back and forth between changing owners in the past, and resulting policies regarding availability.

Yeah, that gives me pause too. There was some noise earlier about open sourcing it; I do wish they'd actually do that.

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wmf
21 minutes ago
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QNX is running on bare metal in a lot of cars.
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