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A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels

QSOE is a QNX-inspired microkernel operating system that allows users to select from different kernel implementations, offering flexibility in system design and architecture.

Background

- QNX is a commercial, Unix-like real-time operating system (RTOS) widely used in embedded systems, cars (e.g., BlackBerry's QNX in automotive dashboards/ADAS), medical devices, and industrial controllers. Its architecture is "microkernel-based": a tiny kernel handles only the most basic tasks (IPC, scheduling), while drivers, filesystems, and networking run as separate user-space processes. This makes it highly modular, fault-isolated, and reliable — a crash in a driver won't bring down the whole system.

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