Qnx6.x

[Toaster]

Howdy folks,
Well, after some fumbling around (due to lack of documentation) I got the QNX O/S installed. I aquired it at www.qnx.com
Once installed, everything ran well. I have to say their browser leave allot to be desired but thankfully, Mozilla was available in beta.
Their browser (Voyager) had problems with my gateway and was a major stumbling block. Thankfully, the QNX package installer (works very much like the IRIX software manager/installer) installed Mozilla without a hitch and thus I'm posting here with QNX.
Once installed after trying a number of partitioning methods, I finally got it to install on a virgin HDD. Its odd, during the install, QNX had to see some kind of partition to continue. It did wipe the existing partition and create its own after I created a partition it would "see".
I set a partition for fat32 which it saw and reconfigured the partition and then formatting it under what may be XFS? (correct me here folks)
After the install, the system auto detected several items without user intervention. It found a vid card, net card, sound card and does a search for hardware on every start. It seems to me that QNX is geared to "far from state of the art" hardware. Its video detection is via the VESA standard. If the vid card you plan to use is not VESA compliant, you may get bad results.
Luckily, under a poorly supported vid card, QNX found the relacement card and configured it without a hitch.
System specs for this particular install was:
ASUS P2-B system board and a Cel-mine at 900mhz.
System memory: 192MB
System disk: 6.5GB IDE (I'm going to try SCSI and other goodies soon.)
CDROM: IDE 24X
Sound: AWE64-G
The system boot time is quite fast and I would think this QNX would run well on a low end Pentium class system and maybe a 486.
Hardware requirements seem very low.
You folks might want to grab the ISO as I did, its about 400MB total.
The site is www.qnx.com

The licensing is what bothers me a little. It doesn't seem to be GPL but the O/S is free to "not for business" uses. Check it out folks, I'd like to hear what you have to say on this.

QNX seems to be another UNIX variant (Like linux). Fast loading and quite "snappy".
The documentation I found very lacking but I may have looked into the wrong areas. It also seems QNX is ported to just about everything save the Alpha.