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QNX Operating System: Project overview

This project is the place to develop the crown jewels of QNX: the QNX® Neutrino® Realtime Operating System (QNX6) and key libraries. The operating system is composed of the kernel and the process manager. Because it's a microkernel OS, device drivers, network stacks, filesystems and the like are maintained in separate projects. These projects will be created as the source is released.

What is Neutrino?

QNX Neutrino is a realtime microkernel operating system. It's scalable, embeddable, networked, SMP-capable, memory protected, and cool. Plus it has a POSIX interface so no one has an excuse to not use it. The OS supports several processor families, including x86, ARM, XScale, PPC, MIPS, and SH-4.

Read about Neutrino

Read the Legal Stuff: Licenses

The QNX source is licensed to you by QSS under the QNX Non-Commercial End User License Agreement, Commercial Software License Agreement, or Partner Software License Agreement (see http://licensing.qnx.com/developer-licenses/).
Failure to abide by licensing rules will result in your bank balance being spontaneously converted into lawyers' fees. :)

Want to Contribute?

Read the For Developers section of this project's wiki. Heck, read the whole wiki.

Downloads

To download source see the OS Source Guide.
Download builds, binaries, etc from the Project Downloads area.
For instructions on the latest development build, check out the Trinity2 Project Page .

Coming Soon

To find out what new features are coming up, what's available to try out, and how you can get involved, check out the OS Roadmap.

Who's Who

Ever wonder where this QNX kernel stuff came from? Want to blame someone?: Meet the Perps

QNX Operating System

Development of the
fundamental components
of the QNX® Neutrino®
Realtime Operating
System. Aka QNX6
Casually called "procnto
".

Project Created: 07/05/2007

Project News (6 Items)

Project Categorization

Technologies > Operating System

Project Members

Total Project Members:43

Project Administrators:
Attilla Danko
Chris Travis
Colin Burgess
Keith Russell
Sebastien Marineau
Steve Bergwerff

Project News: Page 1 of 2 (6 Items)

Trinity 2 milestones now available as part of 6.4.0 pre-release software - QNX Operating System
The Trinity 2 milestone experimental builds (M1 thru M7) have been available for download and installation. This Core OS software is now available as part of the pre-release of the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.0. You can find it at:

http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.community/wiki/SDP_6.4.0

For a full description of features in Trinity 2, see the Trinity 2 wiki page:
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.core_os/wiki/Trinity2

If you discover any problems please let us know via the forums.

Steve Bergwerff - 10/03/2008 4:00 PM EDT

Trinity 2 M7 build now available - QNX Operating System - QNX Operating System
The Trinity 2 M7 experimental build is now available for download and installation. You can find it at:
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.core_os/wiki/Trinity2M7Build

M7 is a milestone build from the head branch that was taken on March 15, '08 and has undergone full testing. It’s an early version of the OS that will be included in the next full product release. However, to try it out, simply install it on top of Momentics 6.3.2.

Trinity 2 is still in development/testing but all major features are available in M7. A readme is available that includes Known Issues, What’s Fixed, and What’s New.

Also, for a full description of features in Trinity 2, see the Trinity 2 wiki page (which also has the links to each build):
http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.core_os/wiki/Trinity2

If you discover any problems please let us know via the forum. There will be a new milestone drop posted roughly once a month until release.
Steve Bergwerff - 06/06/2008 5:53 PM EDT

Dtrace project now public! - QNX Operating System
Hey folks, go over to http://community.qnx.com/sf/projects/dtrace and checkout the good times!
Colin Burgess - 04/23/2008 2:50 PM EDT

APS source published - QNX Operating System
The source for the adaptive partitioning scheduler is now on Foundry27: [ker/aps/|http://community.qnx.com/integration/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/services/system/ker/aps/?root=coreos_pub&system=exsy1001]
Attilla Danko - 02/29/2008 12:17 PM EST

Microkernel Webinar Slides posted - QNX Operating System
I've created a page with the slides and questions from the October 17th Webinar - "Get the inside track on 27 years of microkernel innovation"

I posted the questions asked during the webinar, and will attempt to fill in the answers.
Colin Burgess - 10/19/2007 11:41 AM EDT