I've sent a bunch of letters to Quantum software when they still owned it about open sourcing QnX but they never bit. In spite of substantial backing and a pretty good plan (a redhat like model) there was absolutely no interest.
Re:Minix 3.3.0
by mwcampbell on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:00PM
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> Nearly every router with >1GB/s ports run a microkernel.
Do you mean home wireless routers, or higher-end routers? I thought most home wireless routers these days, including gigabite-capable ones, were running Linux. Can you give specific examples?
Here's one: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/crs-1-multishe...
Here's another: http://www.infinera.com/products/dtn.html
He means non-(pro)consumer stuff.
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No, Cisco's NX-OS, which runs on Nexus-series ethernet switches and MDS-series SANs, is based on MontaVista Linux. These are not niche products.
Re:Minix 3.3.0
by mwcampbell on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @01:55PM
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Oops, missed the greater-than sign in ">1GB/s". That's what I get for reading via text-to-speech with a lot of punctuation excluded.
QNX says, "Hi." Nearly every router with >1GB/s ports run a microkernel.
Blackberry's phones run microkernels.
Yeah its closed source locked down, but its a functioning high performance micro-kernel.