Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

16 of 287 comments (clear)

  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...

      --
      Think for yourself, destroy your television.
  3. Inferno? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is the company in cahoots with the BSD daemon?

  4. 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 :)

  5. 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

  6. 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. ;)

    --
    Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
    1. Re:Yeah I tried it by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, he just had a guest account.

      --
      Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
  7. 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.

    --
    A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
  8. 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.
    --
    You need to install an RTFM interface.
  9. 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 !!!

    --
    I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
  10. 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 ;)

  11. 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...

    --
    Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
  12. 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).

    --
    - mritunjai