Markus,
Thanks for the in-depth explanation! It makes everything so much clearer!
I do want to upgrade to “the future” of QNX, as you say, so I’ll go with QNX6.
Is that also the same as QNX RTP? If not, where do I download QNX 6?
Also, I’m guessing that the standard way to “boot” the gui is to run the command
“ph” from the sysinit file on startup, correct?
Also, thanks for the pointer to your product QMotor. I’ll check it out.
Neville
Markus Loffler wrote:
Neville,
what you have is QNX 4.22, the latest upgrade is, as Bill said, 4.25.
The latest QNX OS is actually QNX 6, which is essentially different from QNX
4 (new kernel etc). The core of QNX6 is also called Neutrino. QNX6 is free
for non-commercial use. I would suggest QNX6 because of that and because it
is the future.
Photon is the windows system of QNX. You start it with “ph”. A desktop will
appear, and you can use a graphical user interface.
For QNX4, there is Photon 1.14. You need to buy it.
For QNX6, there is Photon 2.0. It comes as part of the package.
For controlling mobile robots, I can point you to our product QMotor. It
allows you to implement your control in C, plot signals and tune your
control: > http://qrts.com/products/qmotor/index.shtml> . We have used it
ourself to do different mobile robot experiments.
Markus
“Neville Bonwit” <> neville@erg.sri.com> > wrote in message
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Hello,
I am running QNX v4.22 (no GUI) now and want to update to the newest
“version” of QNX, but I’m having trouble identifying what that is.
Should I get QNX RTP? What is Photon? Neutrino?
I am using QNX to develop/run some C code to control a mobile robot. My
version of QNX is several years old and has no GUI and I just want to do
a simple update of the OS.
Any help in sorting out my confusion would be appreciated. Thanks!
Neville