Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)
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HN · launched Apr 12, 2026 · 245 upvotes (top 3%) · 1 view
Niche: experimental and embedded operating systems · 142 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
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- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Porting and booting Oberon System 3 natively on bare-metal Raspberry Pi 3 hardware requires deep OS architecture, ARM assembly, and firmware/hardware driver development skills.
What it would actually take: This project requires writing bare-metal boot code and hardware drivers (framebuffer, SD card controller via SPI/eMMC, USB/HID) tailored to the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC. The hard part is porting the Oberon runtime and garbage collector to 64-bit ARM bare metal without an underlying Linux kernel. Deep low-level embedded systems programming, ARM assembly, and OS kernel development skills are strictly required.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 708 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 709 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 156 days after the earliest competitor.
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