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Linux is also not a true real time operating system, where QNX has been optimized for that degree of control and predictability from the start. It's also a micro kernel architecture, perfect for embedded systems.
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Yeah I have only really started looking at QNX look like it might be of use [bookmark!!]
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Fit-PC, interesting little box, I will look into a little more.
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My first job in '89 was C / QNX, and QNX was also my first OS love affair (my PC at home was running DOS 3.1 at the time, there's simply no comparison).
As much as I love QNX, it got bought out by RIM / Blackberry a year or two back. Given that they're currently in meltdown, I'd be nervous about the implications for QNX. Pity.
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Please refer to earlier post NutZ!!!
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glennPattonWork wrote: Please refer to earlier post NutZ!!!
Does this come with English subtitles? 
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Sorry Blackberry RIM, made me say a bad word 
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Oh XXXX that looked good too
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glennPattonWork wrote: Oh XXXX that looked good too
No clue what you're talking about. Clearly, I need more coffee.
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Sorry, all looked saw/read RIM Blackberry...and ran, sorry!
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I wouldn't worry about it until there's a real cause to worry. Microsoft has made a lot of mistakes and leadership there is a mess. However, at this time I don't see anything that leads me to believe anything other than they're just trying to be a "me too" on the cloud bandwagon. (A subject for a whole other discussion probably best placed in the Soapbox.)
The APIs may not be elevated in discussions like they once were, but it's still there.
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I personally like Fedora Linux. It is very user-friendly, and is very light on resources (especially using the LXDE 'spin').
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I'm sorry, did you just use Linux (or any other *nix) and user-friendly in the same sentence? I think my brain just rebooted.
These operating systems were never meant for mere mortals.
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"Syntax error: Missing not operator."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm working with Beckhoff[^] which is a German Brand which allows me to program and control our machines under Windows.
If I would need to work with Linux I would go for B&R[^] (Bernecker and Rainer) which is a similar Brand which Works with Linux.
Both brands offer the complete solution: Hardware and software.
Don't know if this could help you, but...
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I laughed a little. Because you have to create your own BSP for Windows Embedded, you are looking for another operating system for which you'd have to... create your own BSP.
Matt McGuire wrote: These Embedded systems are still geared for always connected...
No they aren't. Seriously, where did you come up with that? Windows Embedded/Compact work just fine disconnected. They work find headless. Moreover, they have end-of-life dates way beyond many alternatives. They are easy to configure and very easy to write for.
As for alternatives; for non-hard real time, check out eCos[^].
If you have to do hard real time programming, check out the offerings from Green Hills[^].
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Personally I don't care what Microsoft does. Knowing, naturally, that I have no influence over any direction they take. And about any future course in any realm pivoting on news from them about this or that, I ignore.
Hardware, the thing about which I think you REALLY mean to say something, has been around for ages. How is a software company going to kill that?
Earplugs. To keep the annoying news from infiltrating the porches of the ear.
Shades. To keep the blitz of gaud-awful electronic krap and it's shiney blithering unlessness at visual bay.
And off you go.
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... it's 1p a minute!
 Sorry, but some days the temptation is just too great!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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It certainly is 'the question' at 3 o'clock in the morning and you don't feel like getting out of your nice cosy bed!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Get a water bed...
Will Rogers never met me.
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 Yuck!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Reminds me of an "Oglaf" cartoon, but there is no way I'm posting a link to there in The Lounge 
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