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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. Appalling and Disgusting by shadowxtc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That such a religious link should make it onto such an otherwise intellectually driven (*snort* lol) place.

  2. Re:Thanks for the nightmares! by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I read the snopes link and am not even religous, so take this with a grain of salt, but...

    Imagine for a moment that we could drill a hole to Hell and rescue all these tormented souls. Millions upon millions - 40 billion, I think was the number cited - many of whom have been writhing in agony for thousands of years, and you just open the door for them? A couple of billion pissed off spirts running loose is not my idea of fun. If there was some way to offer them repentance before exit then sure, it's worth a shot, but giving some of the worst criminals of all time a free escape from the worst. place. evar? I don't think so, Tim.

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