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Inferno 4 Available for Download

Posted by michael on from the snowball's-chance dept.

Tarantolato writes "A new preliminary public release of the Inferno distributed operating system is now available for downloading from Vita Nuova's website. Inferno is meant to be a better Plan 9, which was meant to be a better Unix. It can run as a standalone OS, as an application on top of an existing one, or even as a browser plugin. Also, all of its major components are named after things related to hell."

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  1. inferno? by wvitXpert · · Score: 5, Funny

    never heard of it... is it hell to use?

    1. Re:inferno? by earlgreen · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, that's called Windows.

    2. Re:inferno? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just download, burn the CD, and fire it up. You may think it smokes, but I'll be damned if I can see what the devil is so hot about it.

  2. Just what we need by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great, a Christian operating system. Lovely.

    1. Re:Just what we need by Veridium · · Score: 5, Funny

      I understand the kernel doesn't panic, it just dies for your sins...

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  3. Inferno? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is the company in cahoots with the BSD daemon?

  4. related to Hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since when did Alabama become the utopia of the Unix world?

  5. Inferno 4... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    I've heard its hella good...

  6. informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    thanks for the link about hell. I know all about inferno 4 and plan 9, but I've never heard of that one before :)

  7. hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well this matches perfectly... The core OS components are named after Hell, and if it is run on an Intel proc... we now have the hot temperatures to match the Hell description as well.

  8. Shall Jesux rise again? by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would be one to say that Jesux shall smite this thing you call hell, but there hasn't been much activity on the website in a while. I wonder if they'll ship creationism as their mailer/Outlook replacement, for they surely cannot ship evolution .

    INSERT WITTY BSD DAEMON JOKE HERE

  9. Yeah I tried it by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 4, Funny

    had to key in "666" for the administrator password. Got a visit from the Asmodeus Daemon after I logged on. ;)

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    1. Re:Yeah I tried it by 0racle · · Score: 2, Funny

      Administrator? I thought superuser was Dante?

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    2. Re:Yeah I tried it by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, he just had a guest account.

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  10. check out the screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    looks like hell

  11. yay! by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Funny

    An operating system that can run as a browser plugin! Just what I have been waiting for! Now after I've been towing my mobile home on my bicycle, or flossing my teeth with boat anchor chain, I can come back to my computer for some equally well-matched technology.

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  12. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  13. Hell comes in many flavors by warkda+rrior · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdot says:
    [...] all of its major components are named after things related to hell.
    I see on the Inferno website the following components:
    The Inferno operating system [...] includes the Dis virtual machine, integral support for the Styx network protocol, and an implementation of the Tk user interface toolkit.

    I am not sure which part of hell the Tk UI toolkit represents, but I feel their pain.
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    1. Re:Hell comes in many flavors by scrytch · · Score: 2, Funny

      > integral support for the Styx network protocol

      hmm.

      prooooogramming awaaaay
      full of open source
      in the language C
      myyyyy mallocs are freeeeee ...ok i think i'm done, i'm already a bit nauseous...

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  14. Re:Cool ... by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, and apparently it will burn CDs too - burn them in the flames of hell you unholy pirate !!!

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  15. Looks right. by jcuervo · · Score: 3, Funny
    Also, all of its major components are named after things related to hell.
    Hmm...

    * many Unix-like tools: mv, cp, rm, xd, wc, grep, ps, diff, tr, man, ls ...
    Yup. All related to hell.
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  16. Re:OSS authors: Think carefully about communicatio by shaitand · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've obviously never seen the devil girl. I'm a linux man myself but a couple more runins with her when the wife isn't around and I may convert ;)

  17. Re:OSS authors: Think carefully about communicatio by Homology · · Score: 3, Funny
    And Why did the FreeBSD project adopt that idea? I know FreeBSD is an excellent OS, and the favorite BSD for ISPs, but there are some who will be discouraged by the amateurish baby red devil marketing scheme.

    FreeBSD is not alone in this, as can be seen from why Mac is bad ;-)

    But there are even darker undertones to this company than most are aware of. Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple3 by the serpent. It is now Apple Computers offering us temptation, thereby aligning themselves with the forces of darkness.
  18. Call me when they get to by panurge · · Score: 4, Funny
    Paradiso.

    A few obvious questions:

    • Do all comments have to be in terza rima
    • Is there an annoying help popup called Virgil?
    • Presumably the processor needs extreme cooling?
    Oh, and isn't it a bit arrogant of the designers:
    "I was made by the first power, the first holiness and the first love"

    And if the above sounds like raving, just google for Dante Alighieri...

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    1. Re:Call me when they get to by pnot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Presumably the processor needs extreme cooling?

      Well, duh. Why do you think the ninth circle is made of ice? ;-)

      And considering what the core looks like, I'm glad they've expanded the traditional four rings of protection to nine...

  19. Re:OSS authors: Think carefully about communicatio by Per+Wigren · · Score: 2, Funny

    One question is, how bad can it get? Will there one day be a "Worthless" project? There is already a "Waste".

    Well, I've seen better names than ProjectTraq Intranet System Services aka "PISS" anyway.. ;)

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  20. Re:Thanks for the nightmares! by tigersha · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geez, if it is so easy to dig into hell why don't we launch a rescue mission? Gives the US Army somthing to do! Mind you, it might give all thos ex-Red Army soldiers something to do, since this is in Siberia.

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  21. Re:environment by mritunjai · · Score: 4, Funny
    When's the last time you saw an app so well developed that it ran on almost any platform - not to mention as its own OS.

    Emacs :-P (at least the "own OS" part).

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  22. Tried it, it changed my file perm's and ownership by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    to 666, beatrice.beatrice!

    wtf??

  23. Re:All jokes aside...(scary) by gosand · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is this what I think it is?

    A multi-platform OS, it can run standalone, as a virtual machine on every major OS (including every linux distro) and give full blown access to the system? Plus it can run in a sort of transparent mode so you can port your app to it and have your app appear to be a native app?

    (snip)

    So in one sweep we have a solution suitable (sounds like it carries 1mb ram overhead) for most applications. Anything written for it magically runs on every major platform, it's highly scriptable and carries most of the magic of Unix packed with it wherever it's run from.

    If it's significantly faster than Java I'd say we have a solution to the multi-distro problem as far as apps go.



    While I was reading your summary, it sounded like the makings of some kind of super virus to me.

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  24. My favorite user license term ever by m_evanchik · · Score: 2, Funny

    The thankfully short license agreement for Plan 9 includes the following provision:

    "I will not be using Plan 9 in the creation of weapons of mass destruction to be used by nations other than the US."

    There are so many ways that this is funny. There are enough jokes in that one line to keep a sitcom running for two years, maybe more.

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