well, terminals aren't fun, but they work.

installed QNX recently. Its Photon GUI looks nice, but the pkg-installer keeps crashing on me; this makes it hard to go anywhere with it. Some more "issues", minor or not:

• the dialer is too limited, on (1) what it allows for a modem init string and (2) what it reports of responses from the modem peer
• the Shelf configurator doesn't (yet) allow you to "move" components within the shelf hierarchy
• the package system could really use some influence from Debian's apt/dpkg setup; it's really a hassle in comparison to using apt/dpkg/aptitude; the QNX pkg-installer doesn't seem to cache the downloaded repository-info files (yet), across sessions, and it seems like it'll be far more work than should be necessary, to dig-up enough repositories from the web, for getting all of the dependended-on packages, which are needed for software in the already-listed package repositories. GTK? xlib? where? (this, on top of the frequent crashes of pkg-installer, make it hard to build a useful installation with it)

Otherwise, I've heard that their development-kits are great; looking forward to when I can, if ever, fit them in with some open-source tools -- to start with, a Common LISP implementation, either CMUCL or SBCL, if i can figure out how to get one or the other bootstraped on an OS where there might not already be an available package of one or the other.