[REBOL] Re: Rebol & Linux
From: petr::krenzelok::trz::cz at: 4-Feb-2002 8:43
Charles wrote:
> .... Since Mandrake is, fundamentally, RedHat+. There are, of course, a
> billion options out there. Now that we got a CD-RW drive hooked into our
> broadband box, I'm going to try downloading every one I can which has an ISO
> and burn it for testing. BeOS, if you're interested, runs within the
> WIndows file system - no need for a partition, just execute a shortcut on
> your desktop, and it reboots your system into BeOS 5. QNX RTP 6 works
> similarly, but there's no /View for QNX, and the RT people seem pretty
> adamant about NOT having /View for QNX (I believe the reason I was given was
> "until we can be assured it would be commercially viable).
And that is something I really don't understand. RT has to have possible /Pro
sales in mind, or I just don't understand it, as /View itself is free (at least
for non-commercial usage) ...
> Granted, they
> aren't Linux, but they're Unix variants, which are inherently GUI. (QNX can
> be booted into console instead of GUI. QNX supports far less hardware than,
> say, BeOS.)
eh? Let's state facts:
- QNX supports far more hw than BeOS (
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/hardware/platform/index.html )
- QNX is far more better established in embedded market
- BeOS is dead (the future of any free BeOS alternative is uncertain yet ...)
-pekr-
