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2. What can I do if I don't qualify for the program? Educational users who don't qualify for the QNX-in-Education program may still use the QNX Momentics development suite Non-Commercial Edition, which is available for download free of charge. If your application has commercial aspects or you need features that aren't included in the non-commercial edition, you will need to purchase your license as a normal customer.
Is bug testing and experimentation educational? I'd like to try QNX on my Efika but what's involved?
QNX-in-Education is for university/college staff and students. You would have to contact the correct department at your university to see if you could be eligible.
If not in education;
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6208
This is by far the easiest way, however we understand LabView is not for everyone.
You basically need a QNX license (as Kevin stated, it's $4000+) or contact QNX for a trial edition based on the Lite5200 BSP.
Once you have that, bplan can give you the beta firmware (which unfortunately breaks Linux) and the QNX additions for the Aura firmware utilisation.
It isn't the easiest thing in the world to get hold of or use right now, but we do expect it to get a lot easier.
I personally would love to see a non-commercial limited-use version of Momentics downloadable for the Efika, but in the end I really do think we are looking at a moot point; Momentics' download is a bootable CD, and most Efikas do not have a CD drive (even if they are being built into CD drive cases :)
The release of the new 512X Efika board will mark the commercial release of Aura, and no doubt the emergence of a proper Aura BSP, and no firmware updates required (and Linux patches). The same firmware technology will be on the original Efika, and the same BSP will work on it. That's the whole idea, but you will just have to wait for it...