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Re: Oberon, a delightfully insane system

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I wonder if this helped to inspire/would dovetail with Ubiquity. I use Chrome rather than Firefox but I hope Ubuity will get ported for this browser when Google opens up the plugin interface.

Honestly, I have no idea why they're limiting it to be firefox only. They're using the wrong level of abstraction, it should be available to all applications. (IMO)

It is, in the form of the now-open-source Enso. (But really, Ubiquity is in Firefox alone because the general case is a whole lot harder.)

Re: Oberon, a delightfully insane system

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post #26

I wonder if this helped to inspire/would dovetail with Ubiquity. I use Chrome rather than Firefox but I hope Ubuity will get ported for this browser when Google opens up the plugin interface.

Honestly, I have no idea why they're limiting it to be firefox only. They're using the wrong level of abstraction, it should be available to all applications. (IMO)

Chrome isn't open for plugin development AFAIK, is all. And I quite understand them not bothering with IE. I didn't mean to suggest that the Ubiquity team were trying to tether anyone.

Re: Oberon, a delightfully insane system

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shame it doesn't work in VMWare. I tried both isos, the 7MB and 77MB one and tweaked a little bit with the settings but I just get a black screen, it doesn't seem to boot at all. If anyone does manage to get it going could you please post some instructions? Thanks.

I think there are Oberon applications for Linux and Windows, one of the article's links goes to an ETH page with downloads for these. Other than that, you can try running it in Parallels. It didn't work in VMWare on my system, either, but the trial version of Parallels ran it just fine.

I tried out the Windows version. All you have to do is extract the 2 system archives into a folder somewhere on your disk and run the executable. It looks like you get the whole environment, with the ability to create multiple document windows. I haven't played with it further though, so I'm not sure how it would differ from running it right on the hardware.
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