IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s drawbacks.
Please give me some feed back
I’m no Microsoft lover but I have found Windows to be far better than
anything I have tried. I was very disappointed with Linux - I found it
slower than Windows, crashed more and general looked and felt cheapy.
Today I downloaded the latest version of QNX and have to say it is
excellent, it has crashed twice but was easily recovered. The file I
downloaded for the “In Windows” installation was only 25MB and installation
was extremely fast and simple.
There are drawbacks - I have a crappy WinModem (that’s why I just started in
this NG) that won’t work and by on-board sound won’t work either. The
software in that 25MB download is limited to say the least - Screensavers,
Calculator, Notepad, Image Viewer, Email, Browser and a few other things -
but at 25MB what can you expect.
After registering and downloading the OS I had an email to say they would
send me a free CD as well so that’s a bonus.
I’d say try it, you can install without the need to partition your HDD, it
will set up the dual boot for you and comes with an uninstaller.
Edmund Allain wrote:
IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s drawbacks.
Please give me some feed back
It installs very easily, and you can use a boot floppy, if you don’t
want your MBR to be touched. You must have a FAT(32) partition
somewhere, for it to install into, or into a separate partition if you
want (I haven’t tried that yet).
It detected my GeForce and SBLive card straight away, which is amazing,
because no other OS has (I use Win2000 as my primary).
The GUI is like a mix between Gnome and KDE, but is very responsive. If
you have played with Unix at all, you’ll be familiar with the system
layout
/usr
/etc
/bin
…
Fairly standard config gui tools (similar to BeOS), which work on plain
text files, so if you know what you’re doing, you can use ped or vi
(ped is the QNX windows text editor).
So far it is very impressive. I haven’t checked for SMP ability yet (I
have a dual PII 350 box), but I have read that it does support it. Now
bring on Q3 benchmarks 
Dave
Dave O’Brien wrote:
Edmund Allain wrote:
IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s drawbacks.
Please give me some feed backIt installs very easily, and you can use a boot floppy, if you don’t
want your MBR to be touched.
Does it really touch the MBR if installed as a hardfile under windows ?
no, it just adds some lines to your config.sys file.
“Kosh” ← kosh@moncourrier.com> wrote in message
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Dave O’Brien wrote:
Edmund Allain wrote:
IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and
it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s
drawbacks.
Please give me some feed backIt installs very easily, and you can use a boot floppy, if you don’t
want your MBR to be touched.
Does it really touch the MBR if installed as a hardfile under windows ?
Kosh ← kosh@moncourrier.com> wrote in message
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Dave O’Brien wrote:
Edmund Allain wrote:
IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and
it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s
drawbacks.
Please give me some feed backIt installs very easily, and you can use a boot floppy, if you don’t
want your MBR to be touched.
Does it really touch the MBR if installed as a hardfile under windows ?
No. In that case, it changes config.sys - which means that it takes a
little tweaking to get it to work like this in W2K
Edmund Allain <eddiebsd@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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IS QNX Any Good?
That’s a pretty open-ended question…
I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k and it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s
drawbacks.
Please give me some feed back
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Dave O’Brien wrote:Edmund Allain wrote:
IS QNX Any Good? I have used Freebsd and it is good and I use W2k
and
it
smokes.By the way I m not Win lover or advocate every OS has it’s
drawbacks.
Please give me some feed backIt installs very easily, and you can use a boot floppy, if you don’t
want your MBR to be touched.
Does it really touch the MBR if installed as a hardfile under windows ?
No. In that case, it changes config.sys - which means that it takes a
little tweaking to get it to work like this in W2K
And Windows Millenium as well.