Non-commercial version of QNX RTOS and Momentics?

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1

Hello,

I would like to install a version of QNX RTOS along with the Momentics
IDE on my home PC, does anyone know how I can get a non-commercial
version? Thank you.

2

m2asseli wrote:

Hello,

I would like to install a version of QNX RTOS along with the Momentics
IDE on my home PC, does anyone know how I can get a non-commercial
version? Thank you.

All releases of QNX 6.x have had a non-commercial configuration. The current one, QNX 6.3.0, is an all-in-one distro, you install the full version and get 30 days of fully-commercial use before it defaults the NC mode.


Evan

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Evan Hillas wrote:

m2asseli wrote:
Hello,

I would like to install a version of QNX RTOS along with the Momentics
IDE on my home PC, does anyone know how I can get a non-commercial
version? Thank you.


All releases of QNX 6.x have had a non-commercial configuration. The current
one, QNX 6.3.0, is an all-in-one distro, you install the full version and
get 30
days of fully-commercial use before it defaults the NC mode.



Evan

Are there any limitations (e.g. OS features) in using the NC mode?
Thanks in advance!


Steffen

4

Steffen Heinrich wrote:

Evan Hillas wrote:


m2asseli wrote:

Hello,

I would like to install a version of QNX RTOS along with the Momentics
IDE on my home PC, does anyone know how I can get a non-commercial
version? Thank you.



All releases of QNX 6.x have had a non-commercial configuration. The current
one, QNX 6.3.0, is an all-in-one distro, you install the full version and

get 30

days of fully-commercial use before it defaults the NC mode.



Evan




Are there any limitations (e.g. OS features) in using the NC mode?
Thanks in advance!
Yes,

When Qnx 6.3.? goes to NC mode, the Eclipse IDE stops working, and qcc,
QNX’s wrapper for the gcc compiler stops working. PhaB, however,
continues to work. This means that development will be somewhat more
tedious, though not impossible.

Steffen

5

JohnMcClurkin wrote:

Yes,
When Qnx 6.3.? goes to NC mode, the Eclipse IDE stops working, and
qcc, QNX’s wrapper for the gcc compiler stops working. PhaB, however,
continues to work. This means that development will be somewhat more
tedious, though not impossible.

Crippling “qcc”, which is basically a script that invokes
free software, always seemed to be a bit much. Someone should
write a replacement for “qcc” and open source it. All it does
is munge the command line options and invoke gcc, after all.

The price QNX pays for not having a proper “NC” version
is that, with each new release, more free software stops working
on QNX. When there was an NC version, free software developers
were routinely building for QNX. You could just download the
source for, say, Mozilla, and build for QNX. There was probably
even be a repository for the QNX version.

Nobody bothers to do that for QNX any more. Notice the
complaints on here about various pieces of free software
not working on new versions of QNX. That’s why.

QNX’s problem is not that people will pirate it.
QNX’s problem is that people will ignore it.

However, QNX employees now do check their patches
to “gcc”, etc. back into the main gcc tree, so that,
at least, is being done right.

John Nagle