[Oberon] [SPAM | WERBUNG] Re: Re: [SPAM | WERBUNG] Is there an Oberon System 3 or 4version known to work on modern Linux kernels?

[Rochus Keller]

@ Bernhard Treutwein

Thank you very much for the links. I can confirm that both versions indeed start and seem to work on my Debian bookworm. 

The files of the V4 1.7 version have a modification date of November 2004, which is amazing. The compiler seems to be the OP2 version by N. Mannhart with the "pseudo Risc" IR, with changes up to August 1997, which is exactly what I was looking for. 

I had tried with an earlier version of OLR which crashed at start, but this one now runs, although it goes into infinite loop when closing the window, so I have to kill it. At first glance, the compiler seems to have changed quite a bit compared to Mannhart's version, so I will try my luck with V4.

Best regards
R.K.


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From: Bernhard Treutwein
Sent on: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:11:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] [SPAM | WERBUNG] Is there an Oberon System 3 or 4version known to work on modern Linux kernels?

Hi Rochus,

OberonV4 for Linux (available at 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/oberon/files/Oberon%20V4%20for%20GNU_Linux/) 
should run on actual Linux kernels, given 32bit support is installed, 
see thread started by Richard Hable 
(https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2025/017029.html) some time 
ago. You have to edit the sob script according to Tools&Tips on SF 
(https://sourceforge.net/p/oberon/wiki/Tools/).

OLR by Peter Matthias (see 
http://oberon.wikidot.com/oberon-linux-revival-olr) is System 3 and I 
have succeeded on several systems running on a framebuffer console and 
on some X11. On some systems I had to adjust/experiment with the 
environment variables; they are documented on the referenced page.

Feel free to contact me by PM, if you still have problems.

regards
--
   Bernhard

On 18.07.25 14:05, Rochus Keller wrote:
> I downloaded and tried all Linux x86 versions of the original Oberon Systems 3 and 4 I found and tried to run them on Debian Bookworm, but I get nothing but segfaults.
>
> Does anyone have a version which was built with and includes a OP2 lineage compiler, and which runs on current Linux kernels?
>
> Thanks
> R.K.
>
>