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Actually it does... you just have to have the right versions. RedHat makes a ton of money on their support side, they actually have a huge building close to where I work.
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Oh, I suppose it makes sense, mind you if RedHat are supporting it, do they a process the software must be certified on? Or else I can think of a couple of things that they could solve...
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I'm sure if you pay them enough money they'll certify whatever you want...
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A friend of mine says RHEL is also really bad about be trapped with old versions of things. Obsolete versions of Python and GCC are his biggest complaints. The former for lacking newer language features, that latter for a bunch of usability (debugging???) related improvements that after years of GCC devs saying they're impossible or are too low priority to ever be implemented suddenly found themselves being implemented after they were launched in Clang/LLVM.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They sure don't provide the latest and greatest that's for sure... but I think they have a good middle ground of stability and newer stuff. Latest and greatest has it's own headaches, like my Ubuntu machine that wants to do updates every day, half of which require a reboot (something that Ubuntu has become bad about).
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Linux is also not a true real time operating system, where QNX has been optimized for that degree of control and predictability from the start. It's also a micro kernel architecture, perfect for embedded systems.
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Yeah I have only really started looking at QNX look like it might be of use [bookmark!!]
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Fit-PC, interesting little box, I will look into a little more.
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My first job in '89 was C / QNX, and QNX was also my first OS love affair (my PC at home was running DOS 3.1 at the time, there's simply no comparison).
As much as I love QNX, it got bought out by RIM / Blackberry a year or two back. Given that they're currently in meltdown, I'd be nervous about the implications for QNX. Pity.
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Please refer to earlier post NutZ!!!
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glennPattonWork wrote: Please refer to earlier post NutZ!!!
Does this come with English subtitles?
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Sorry Blackberry RIM, made me say a bad word
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Oh XXXX that looked good too
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glennPattonWork wrote: Oh XXXX that looked good too
No clue what you're talking about. Clearly, I need more coffee.
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Sorry, all looked saw/read RIM Blackberry...and ran, sorry!
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I wouldn't worry about it until there's a real cause to worry. Microsoft has made a lot of mistakes and leadership there is a mess. However, at this time I don't see anything that leads me to believe anything other than they're just trying to be a "me too" on the cloud bandwagon. (A subject for a whole other discussion probably best placed in the Soapbox.)
The APIs may not be elevated in discussions like they once were, but it's still there.
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I personally like Fedora Linux. It is very user-friendly, and is very light on resources (especially using the LXDE 'spin').
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I'm sorry, did you just use Linux (or any other *nix) and user-friendly in the same sentence? I think my brain just rebooted.
These operating systems were never meant for mere mortals.
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"Syntax error: Missing not operator."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm working with Beckhoff[^] which is a German Brand which allows me to program and control our machines under Windows.
If I would need to work with Linux I would go for B&R[^] (Bernecker and Rainer) which is a similar Brand which Works with Linux.
Both brands offer the complete solution: Hardware and software.
Don't know if this could help you, but...
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I laughed a little. Because you have to create your own BSP for Windows Embedded, you are looking for another operating system for which you'd have to... create your own BSP.
Matt McGuire wrote: These Embedded systems are still geared for always connected...
No they aren't. Seriously, where did you come up with that? Windows Embedded/Compact work just fine disconnected. They work find headless. Moreover, they have end-of-life dates way beyond many alternatives. They are easy to configure and very easy to write for.
As for alternatives; for non-hard real time, check out eCos[^].
If you have to do hard real time programming, check out the offerings from Green Hills[^].
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Personally I don't care what Microsoft does. Knowing, naturally, that I have no influence over any direction they take. And about any future course in any realm pivoting on news from them about this or that, I ignore.
Hardware, the thing about which I think you REALLY mean to say something, has been around for ages. How is a software company going to kill that?
Earplugs. To keep the annoying news from infiltrating the porches of the ear.
Shades. To keep the blitz of gaud-awful electronic krap and it's shiney blithering unlessness at visual bay.
And off you go.
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... it's 1p a minute!
Sorry, but some days the temptation is just too great!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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