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

    No, he just had a guest account.

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