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Re:Booting a Modern Linux Desktop in Just ~200MB by rsyncinside on Friday December 28, 2012 @01:59AM (#4976812)
With QNX you get a RTOS. You get a higher level of reliability, dependability than with multitasking. You don't get that sort of reliability with some pre-packaged Linux distribution. You need to do some nontrivial kernel hacking to make Linux into a RTOS.

Why did Blackberry buy QNX?

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Re:Booting a Modern Linux Desktop in Just ~200MB by sliverstorm on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:36AM (#4976999)
I've got nothing against QNX, but I don't think RTOS is what a "modern linux desktop" is about.
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