IIRC, they only offer a time-limited evaluation version now. QNX is designed to be a real-time operating system. Linux isn't. If this is a genuine real-time app you're running, Linux may not be what you're looking for. There are ways to make Linux real-time (and also reduce latency, which is easier), but most of these are a serious hassle to implement on your own - at least from my own experience trying to do it about a year ago.
Of course, it could also just be some random app, in which case porting it may be easy. "It depends." -DMZ On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:38 +0000, Rob Maxwell wrote: > I believe they offer a free for non-commercial use version. They did at one > time. If not, I may still have a copy of what they were offering. > > Rob > > ******************************************************************************* > Robert Maxwell, CISSP > Lead Incident Handler OIT Security, University of > Maryland > rmaxwell at umd dot edu > GnuPG Public Key: http://itsecurity.umd.edu/contact/Robert_Maxwell.asc > ******************************************************************************* > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:52:45 > To:[email protected] > Subject: [UM-LINUX] QNX > > Hello, > > I may have posed this question once before several months ago, so for > give me for asking again. Is anyone familiar with an operating system > called QNX? I did a little research online and found a web site that > offered QNX for sale for about $3K to $3.5K. The little research that I > did led me to belive that it was a UNIX variant. I'm running some > propietary software on a machine that is running QNX. I'd like to play > around with making it work on a Linux OS. A question for anyone who is > familiar with QNX. If I were to try and use a Linux OS in its place of > QNX to run this software, what Linux variant would you recommend? I do > have a comp sci degree, but only have a little exposure to Linux. > > FYI > For anyone interested. I recently took a sys admin class at UMUC > CMIT391 that was pretty good. The book used was developed by a > Professional training concern named GURU Labs > > > Sincerely, > > Russ Main
