JohnAtQNX (u/JohnAtQNX)

JohnAtQNX commented on Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years? · Posted by u/ipnon

geremiiah · 4 months ago

Everyone is talking about AI this and AI that. I think the more pressing job market pressure is from there being way too many graduates due to increased interest in the field from the general population. I TA at a university and I see the current crop of CS students and the demographics have changed a lot.

JohnAtQNX · 4 months ago

Have you noticed the base level knowledge change? I talked with a second year CS student a while back who didn't know how to ping another host, and it really made me wonder if new students are choosing CS because it seems cool (versus _back in my day_ when we were all geeks who took CS because we lived and breathed it all day in life anyway).

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

xvilka · 10 months ago

We (Rizin) would love to improve QNX support of our FOSS reverse engineering and debugging framework. We already support[1][2][3][4] it, but can't reliably test. Would be awesome to have the QEMU image out of the box, just like Windows provides ready to use limited VMs for testing[5].

[1] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/tree/dev/librz/bin/format/...

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/dev/librz/bin/p/bin_q...

[3] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/blob/dev/librz/debug/p/deb...

[4] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/tree/dev/subprojects/rzqnx

[5] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

You should be able to use the free QNXE Everywhere license to spin up a QEMU VM with a few clicks in the IDE. I appreciate it would be easier of it was a single-click download like the Windows image though. I'll take that feedback.

If I can help enable your QNX support in any other way, feel free to DM or message: qnxcommunityengagement at qnx dot com.

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

faragon · 10 months ago

Working with QNX today is like working with 25 year old software: tiny community, few examples, lots of issues for which you end doing avoidance workarounds, etc.

I would have more interest on it if being open source.

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

This is what QNX Everywhere is all about -- opening the community, writing piles of examples and samples, and identifying and fixing the issues that add friction. The team and I have a massive backlog of fun directions to take this, and I'm excited to be getting started!

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

znpy · 10 months ago

Hey, what iPIs are supported ?

I have an old first-gen raspberry pi, would QNX work on that ?

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

Not today, but that would be fascinating to try!

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

BenFranklin100 · 10 months ago

John, Would it be possible to get this installed on a BlackBerry Passport or Q10. The passport is my favorite phone of all time.

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

Hmm, not today, but I love the sentiment! Of the BB10 line, Passport was also my favorite!

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

7thaccount · 10 months ago

Can one install QNX as the main OS on a desktop? Or can I boot into the QNX desktop from a thumb drive?

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

It depends on the machine, I suppose. For example, the Pi 4 quick start image works like this.. But this isn't a desktop environment out of the box. Mr @elahav has a Desktop window manager based on Screen that you can build and run. It's pretty cool and in a great state to be built upon! https://gitlab.com/elahav/screenwm

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

kmbfjr · 10 months ago

What I need to know is, does it come with Solitaire using the “Giants of Computing” card deck?

Because if it does, that is worth it right there.

We ran QNX for ASI statistical multiplexing in TV. I would always fire up a game while waiting for logs.

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

I wonder if we could get this running again!

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

mcmisieck · 10 months ago

You can get 30-day trial, Partner or Academic license. So what's new exactly?

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

The non-commercial QNX Everywhere license is always free and perpetual -- no renewals. Fully self-service and includes access to the full QNX SDP 8.0 for development & QNX targets.

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

sgt · 10 months ago

Can we still put QNX on a 1.44M floppy and boot from it?

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

You can put it on an SD card and boot from it, if that counts :)

JohnAtQNX commented on QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com/en/pro... · Posted by u/JohnAtQNX

justin66 · 10 months ago

@JohnAtQNX the way to put the rug-pulling concerns to bed is to license all the source code under the ISC License, BSD 2-clause License, or MIT License.

This would certainly have an impact once that was done. Of course I cannot speak to what that would do to your software business...

JohnAtQNX · 10 months ago

I hear it loud and clear. We're certainly in the early days of this initiative, but as things progress I'll make sure to bring up source code licensing as a community concern.