(unknown charset) Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: (unknown charset) [at]} <Dmitry>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:23:32 +0300

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I had no plan to publish my work on list, but due to some activity last day I will.

I've assembled Linux port of BlackBox. It runs natively on Linux and [with Linux compartibility layer] on FreeBSD boxes.
It has no GUI yet, but has handmade X and GTK bindings.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/oberonrevival/files/BB/bb-revival-nix-0.1.tar.gz/download

This port was assembled from OpenBUGS, which contained DevElfLinker module. With this module one can
compile *.so files (i.e. shared objects). External startup file (BlackBox.c) is used to start runtime & kernel.
Compiled startup file included.

Development is done in cross-compilation style at Windows box (or equal Linux box in Wine). Development files included (Devel.zip).

Archive contains README with full description of "installation" and development (in Russian, UTF-8).

If one'll be intrerested I'll translate README & BlackBox.c to English.

Thanks a lot.
Dmitry.

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:16:19 -0500 ОХЯЭЛН НР Wojtek Skulski <skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy

> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Fyodor Tkachov wrote:
>
> > All (re)written in any flavor of Oberon of course.
>
> I do not think that rewriting other's peoples work is of much value.
> Reinventing the wheel is generally a bad idea.
>
> It would be valuable to do something that others are not doing. Not being
> an OS expert, I can only propose a very simplistic concept. For example,
> how about using the Linux "modules" (kernel subsystems loaded with insmod
> or modprobe) to implement either the Oberon System or Oberon-friendly
> environment? I will call it simply "wirth", though this name may be
> reserved.
>
> I would love to see Oberon System or BlackBox running on top of wirth. Or
> perhaps a few Oberon Systems or BlackBoxes, each one running on a separate
> CPU core and communicating with other Oberon Systems via mechanisms
> provided by wirth.
>
> One can say "but BlackBox is running on wine". Yes, but wine is big and
> not suitable for embedded systems. On the other hand, wirth could be small
> because its sole purpose would be to provide the Oberon/BlackBox-friendly
> environment.
>
> I am not sure if the idea of wirth makes sense to OS experts. To me it
> looks fresh. I think it makes more sense than reimplementing parts of
> Linux kernel, which are perfectly fine, though perhaps ugly. But who cares
> if it is ugly, if it works? (It does not matter what color is the cat, if
> it catches mice -- this one is for Fyodor.)
>
> W.
>
>
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