JohnAtQNX

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!

Not today, but that would be fascinating to try!

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

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

I wonder if we could get this running again!

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.

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

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.

Hiya! We've discussed how to make that work. It's good to hear the same thing from an outside voice. I'll bring it back to the table to inch it along. Thanks!

Right now, in the Pi family, only the Pi 4 on the BCM2711.

Wow, I didn't know this! Thanks for sharing!

This is a good blog post idea. I'll get it on our backlog.

This is great feedback, thanks! I absolutely want to find ways to provide some support -- a bug portal is a fantastic idea. For now we're accepting issue reports though gitlab.com/qnx.

Not this time! =). But today's floppy equivalent is a micro-SD card.. Right? Right?

That's awesome! It's decent, yes. The starter image comes with a graphical app launcher you can check out. I'll poke the team about releasing the source for that launcher soon (I think they wanted to clean it up so it's a good sample).

We have a couple of students working on bringing up the hardware in the Pimoroni Trilobot kit on QNX, but adding some ML to the camera for some kind of autonomous steering perhaps. It will be the perfect blend of intensive processing (camera+ML) with hardware control (short high-priority interrupts). (P.S. hope to open-source this when they are done, along with some blog posts or tutorials -- stay tuned.)

Separately, I think making a GPS-synced weather station would be a fun project. QNX is often used when tight timing is needed for telemetry, so using it to collect weather (and other) data, including from pulsing hardware like an anemometer, and then publishing it to an online service would be a lot of fun.

If software-only is more your style, there may or may not be someone in the office next to me porting some classic games right now! =)

I think we're at something like 235 millions cars on the road today with QNX inside. The volume blows my mind. We're also hiding inside lots of healthcare products, industrial control systems, etc.

There's lots of interesting key differences between something based on Linux, for example, and QNX. Worth digging into if you're interested in these things. My colleague wrote a short ebook and the intro has a good summary: https://gitlab.com/elahav/qnx-rpi-book/-/tree/master/pdf

Don't hold me to timelines, but we're definitely headed in the direction of being more open and transparent. We're hearing that this is important to our customers and the community alike. Stay tuned!