Posts by d3Xt3r

QNX 8 goes freeware – for non-commercial use

You know what would be great? If we could run QNX on the desktop, so that we could do our development completely on QNX.

I don't understand why QNX killed off Photon and the desktop builds. I recall using QNX 5 or 6 on my Pentium III 450 back in the day, and it was so far ahead of Linux back then. The most amazing thing was the desktop responsiveness, especially the fact that I could play audio whilst multitasking - with zero stutter - something even modern Linux distros can still struggle with! And an even more amazing example was the famous 1.44MB demo floppy which fit an entire DE, something that is still just as impressive today as it was back then.

I'm really sad that QNX for the Desktop no longer exists. At least make it opensource and let the community support it, if you can't make money off it. Why just simply kill it off?

Met Office cuts off Linux users with new weather widgets

Not a problem for nix geeks

I don't see this being an issue for any *nix geek worth his salt. All you have to do is hit up WireShark or similar to sniff on the traffic sent to/from the widget and it shouldn't take too long to whip up a native client written in python or something...

Worst case scenario: you can always run AIR under Wine.