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Memory Barrier
Personal blog · membarrier.wordpress.comsystemsprogramming
Memory Barrier is a personal blog at membarrier.wordpress.com about systems and programming. Since 2017, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Building a QNX 7 Desktop”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's QNX 7 desktop post, a tutorial on running the QNX operating system with a desktop, mainly as a pointer for anyone curious about QNX or microkernel OSes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A software developer's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Building a QNX 7 Desktop8 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-04-29
- QNX Resource Manager in Rust: Message Passing and Resource Managers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-29
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this guy: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image”Submitted Building a QNX 7 Desktop as a story · 208 points
HN discussionSomebody has build it: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop”Submitted QNX Desktop 2019-03 update as a story · 55 points
HN discussionIf anyone gets interested in using QNX, there is a tutorial: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster”Submitted Stop Checking for Null Pointers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck this out: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “Dissecting QNX [pdf]”Submitted QNX 7 Desktop (KDE) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI found this impressive https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “Dissecting QNX [pdf]”Submitted QNX Resource Manager in Rust: Message Passing and Resource Managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis looks a little promising https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “Ask HN: What's a reasonable microkernel-based OS for desktop usage?”Submitted QNX Resource Manager in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood luck: https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
Comment linking /2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
on “QNX Demo Disk screen shots”Submitted Raspberry Pi Powered Treadmill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a BlackBerry QNX 7 Desktop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted QNX Resource Manager in Rust: Message Passing and Resource Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a BlackBerry QNX 7 Desktop as a story · 1 points
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