[MLB-WIRELESS] QNX as a platform

[kim at aldigital.co.uk]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:12:00PM +1100, Jason Hecker wrote:
> >Has anyone used QNX instead of other Linux versions for a wireless router?
> 
> Not that I know of.  Should be possible.  There are various 
> Linux-on-a-floppy like Linux-Router-Project and No-Cat Net that will do all 
> that caper with a QNX like footprint.
 
using QNX would be nice as a platform for this enviroment as there
are GNU tools (gcc etc) for QNX. but the issue is that its a
commercial OS etc, and licence fees ... blarhg

> If Melbwireless get's going in a serious way then hopefully it too will 
> have it's own no brainer distribution.  I am hoping an add-on for 
> Smoothwall would be possible.

after talking to folks about smoothwall, and the guy that maintains
it, the open source distro is going to be not supported soon and
will become a full commerial product, IIRC. 

yours,

kim
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