alt Hacker NewsI love lightweight distros. QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers. After years of wrangling with Slackware CDs, it was pretty wild to boot into a fully functional system from a floppy.
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ddalex • yesterday at 4:46 PM
I never understood how that QNX desktop didn't pick up instanntly, it was amazing !
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anyfoo • yesterday at 4:30 PM
That famous QNX boot disk was the first thing I thought of when reading the title as well.
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knowitnone3 • yesterday at 8:00 PM
yeah but what can you do with free QNX? With tinycore, you can install many packages. What packages exist for QNX?
> QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers.
I don’t think that had the X Windows system. https://web.archive.org/web/19991128112050/http://www.qnx.co... and https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004 confirm that. It ran the Photon microGUI Windowing System (https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0SP1.update/com.qnx....)