What the hell happened to BeBox and QNX?! They were the pinnacle of blitz. I’ve got a beefy machine to run large LLM models, but recently installing a new Debian, Gnome struggles after booting because of their packaging manager running 100% for a few minutes, following by random lag. Like wtf we had speed 26 years ago :(

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pjmlp an hour ago | parent | next [-]

QNX keeps going on high integrity computing, a domain where hypervisors and microkernels actually matter.

https://qnx.software

https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/8.0/index.html

	▲	alfiedotwtf an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That warms my heart

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thinker5555 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was just telling my 10 year old about QNX last night, and how it was an amazing feat to have a whole graphical desktop with apps all fit on a 1.44mb floppy disc. Since he's missing so much of the context of "the ancient times", he didn't exactly share my enthusiasm, but at least he humored me a bit for my trip down memory lane.

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mdp2021 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I understand that part of the latest efforts in Linux have been to use NNs to analyze code in order to speed up subsystems.

	▲	alfiedotwtf an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve found LLMs have been incredible in speeding up code. Hopefully they’ll end the past decades of software performance expanding into the hardware it’s give