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gardnr ◴[06 Dec 25 16:24 UTC] No.46174504[source]▶

I 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 ◴[06 Dec 25 16:46 UTC] No.46174684[source]▶

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I never understood how that QNX desktop didn't pick up instanntly, it was amazing !

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1. knowitnone3 ◴[06 Dec 25 20:05 UTC] No.46176208[source]▶

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because it's not free and their aim was at developers and the embedded space. How many people have even heard of QNX?

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