The Eclipse Board of Stewards today announced Eclipse's reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse is now an independent body that will drive the platform's evolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and end-users. All technology and source code provided to this fast-growing ecosystem will remain openly available and royalty-free.

QNX CEO Dan Dodge takes seat on board of directors. "QNX is proud to be a driving force behind Eclipse since its inception," said Dan Dodge. "With a seat on the board as a strategic developer member, we are reinforcing and extending our commitment to the goals of seamless tool integration and advancement of best-in-class tooling for embedded software development."

In an acknowledgement of the growing popularity of Linux among developers, QNX Software Systems has added support for Linux development hosts to its Eclipse-based Momentics embedded development suite. The Momentics development suite supports development targets running QNX Neutrino, a popular, proprietary POSIX-compatible hard real-time OS.

"Many embedded system OEMs, particularly those in the telecom segment, are migrating to more cost-effective development hosts, so adding host support for Linux was a natural evolution for QNX Momentics," said Thomas Fletcher, tools development manager at QNX Software Systems.

This is a tarball of buildable source for the erlang language. Erlang is a FUNCTIONAL language, not an 'OO' wannabe, and the syntax is a major paradigm shift. The language was designed to do distributed telecoms applications and it does these better than pretty much anything else. There is an active user community and this announcement will be relayed to them as well.

This is unsupported, as we have real work that our employer expects us to do. The build is large and not for the weak of CPU or memory impaired. It works for us.

You will find the file in the download area:
otp_src_R9C-0-x86-QNX6.2.1.tar.gz md5sum a9ef57f4e75c0fcdd214301bac9946df

I've just started to develop a new little Terminal app for QNX, with stuff like Tabs and bookmarks. It's free and quite early in development so please don't blame me if it does not work, crashes, destroys your computer, insults your mother, etc.

Anyway, it is available here:

http://the400.homeunix.com/gterm-0.1.zip

There is no package for it, just the executable, but should work anywhere you put it.

There will be lots of missing features/bugs so anything you want fixed or added, please drop me a private message on the forums.

Robert Krten just announced the secure rm utility for QNX. Unlike the normal "rm", "secure rm" can wipe a file all to zero before unlinking it. or, for the really security-minded individual, it can write multiple copies of randomized garbage over the file before unlinking it. "srm" is intended to replace "rm" and the alpha version is available at http://www.parse.com/samples/manpages/srm.html

Reinforcing its position as the leading real-time operating system (RTOS) provider for in-car telematics applications, QNX Software Systems recently announced that it has reached a milestone of more than 50 telematics industry customers and related projects: http://www.qnx.com/news/pr/jan07_03_telematics.html

With the rumours abound about QNX 6.3 and the unannounced, but upcoming beta, I got into a discussion on IRC about the "good ole days." This lead into me digging out some really old QNX News "magazines" and reading them again.

GNAT 3.4 for QNX 6.2.1 is now available for download at ftp://ftp.qnx.org.ru/pub/projects/bbceler/ It is the Ada compiler from the gcc tool chain. It is ported directly from the gcc cvs by Bogdan Celer. At the ftp site, you can also find the examples for testing.

QNX Software Systems today launched the QNX(R) Voyager(TM) 2 embedded Web browser, a modular, scalable and high-performance solution for Internet applications. QNX Voyager 2 is built upon ACCESS' NetFront Browser Engine technology, the same technology that powers the NetFront browser used in NTT DoCoMo's wildly successful i-mode(TM) service as well as the new Palm OS 5 Browser and the Blazer 3.0 browser available in the new HandSpring Treo 600 handheld.

Midnight Commander v4.6.0p4a released ! And it's available from the http://mike.qnx.org.ru/software/mc-4.6.0p4-x86-public.qpr . This version contain many QNX6 related improvements and fixes, including support for the almost all key combinations, removed some artifacts during screen output, etc.