Blackberry might switch to Android as OS

Re:Blackberry might switch to Android as OS by TD-Linux on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:00AM (#9703959)

I hear tons of praise for QNX here, but how many people have had good experience with it? I've absolutely hated VxWorks personally, and have heard many complaints about QNX as well.

Has anyone here used it and liked it more than, e.g. Linux?

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Re:Blackberry might switch to Android as OS by jsolson on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:04AM (#9703976)

I have used it, and for what it is I like it rather well. If I was in the business of building real-time systems, I would choose it over Linux in a heartbeat.

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Re:Blackberry might switch to Android as OS by rbanffy on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:29AM (#9704821)

At the time I learned C on it Minix was brand new and Linux was a distant future. QNX is a rock-solid RTOS. There was, once, a desktop version with a GUI, but I never used it.

I may be wrong, but I remember it could boot, compile C code and run vi from a 360k floppy.

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