Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time.
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while there are tons of QNX vs LInux articles i could fine, none of them were comapiring QNX to the 2.6 linux kernel so I chose this one, ( http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_2870_1.html ).
I can verify this is correct that QNX can boot in a few seconds and is lightning quick and utalizes (at least on intel) multi core CPU's better than linux currently ( as up 2.6.27.5 ) as i have and develop for both. this has actualy promted me to do a bench marking of the 2 systems, both in just kernel and text mode, as well as light weight GIU's (linux with something like fluxbox, and QNX with photon).
but as someone who uses embeded version of QNX and linux daily i can honestly say QNX is faster in boot, alication load, and data write to the file system. as far as apication usage and responsiveness, well that usualy depends on the app, so it's a toss up.
Edited 2008-11-11 16:28 UTC