Oberon_SDRAM
fynedesk
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Oberon_SDRAM
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Project Oberon
This project is still a great example of a complete computer design, starting from Niklaus Wirth's own RISC5 CPU (not a RISC-V) and very simple peripherals over the OS, runtime/garbage collector, compiler, GUI and simple example applications.
One problem of the original implementation is that it was based on an old Xilinx Spartan 3 development board. This is not only no longer available, but it is one of the few FPGA boards that used 32 bit wide fast (12 ns IIRC) asynchronous SRAM chips. Wirth's hardware design relies heavily on this.
Some years ago, there was a compatible board, the OberonStation. However, it seems this is no longer manufactures: https://pcper.com/2015/12/meet-the-oberonstation-kid-friendl...
However, some modified designs exist that implement a cache in FPGA block RAM and an SDRAM controller. These can be used one more recent FPGA boards:
- FleaFPGA "Ohm" board with a Lattice ECP5 FPGA and 32 MB RAM (https://fleasystems.com/fleaFPGA_Ohm.html) - https://github.com/Basman74/Oberon_SDRAM
- Radiona ulx3s, another ECP5 in an open source design (https://github.com/emard/oberon) - https://github.com/emard/oberon
- PapilioPro using a Xilinx Spartan 6 LX, another open source PCB design (https://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.PapilioPro) - https://opencores.org/projects/oberon_sdram
Shameless plug: my student Rikke's port of Project Oberon to RV32I (this is a real RISC-V), however, we still need to find some time to build an FPGA-based SoC. Currently, it runs in emulation: https://github.com/solbjorg/oberon-riscv
fynedesk
- FyneDesk – Linux desktop environment in Go
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Making cross-platform software using Linux that also runs on BSD
We (I am one of the developers) also have https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk as a desktop environment.
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Build a Desktop App in Go Using Wails and React
If U like a Go Desktop try this: https://github.com/fyne-io/fynedesk
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Project Oberon
The Oberon channel has several videos of Oberon in action,
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Oberon+Chan...
While Oberon was quite cool, people should also learn about its Xerox influence,
"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
Also dive into what happened afterwards, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Zonnon,...
Active Oberon could be considered quite modern, also makes the distinction between safe and unsafe pointers, which improves the experience for low level coding.
https://github.com/metacore/A2OS
One of the best things about these systems is proving what systems programming with automatic memory management were capable of.
Given Oberon-2's influence on Go, maybe improving Fyne (https://fyne.io/fynedesk/) with something like gRPC for the dynamic experience, could be a possible sucessor.
- FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment
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Why Go over Python?
The thing is with go is it's kind of made for web applications. It's made by google for google. Taking a look at the standard library you can see the most fleshed out parts are for general system access, networking and particularly http, and crypto. People have obviously made things outside of those scopes like fynedesk, but that's where the focus of golang is.
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Is there is good GUI for Golang ?
Another angle for when a toolkit is mature could be when it’s used for a full desktop environment :). MacOS and Windows native toolkits obviously tick the box. GTK+ has Gnome, Qt powers KDE (both have Go bindings), Enlightenment is powered by EFL (no Go support yet). Fyne is being used for FyneDesk https://github.com/fyne-io/fynedesk
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As a longtime BSD user, I have my doubts about our future.
One other idea that I had: There are new approaches to the desktop like e.g. FyneDesk, a *nix desktop environment written in Golang (using its own GUI toolkit). It's BSD-licensed (3-clause) and I would expect the team being more than happy with anybody trying to make it available to a wider audience. Might be worth a thought.
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Pure Go desktop for Linux/BSD, FyneDesk reaches v0.2
100% agree on the theming, quick glance at the current implementation seems to indicate hardcoded values (I am assuming this is an early spec) https://github.com/fyne-io/fynedesk/blob/master/theme/theme.go
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Looking for an interesting project to contribute
we were thinking of contributing to this project fyne-io/fynedesk: A full desktop environment for Linux/Unix using Fyne (github.com)
What are some alternatives?
oberon
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
A2OS - Unofficial mirror of the ETH A2 repository
go-playground - Better Go Playground powered by React and Monaco editor
THM-Oberon
cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit
pigo - Fast face detection, pupil/eyes localization and facial landmark points detection library in pure Go.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
kaf - Modern CLI for Apache Kafka, written in Go.
space-cloud - Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes
ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.