Inferno 4

Monday, May 17th, 2004

Slashdot and OsNews both report that a new version of Inferno is Available for download. Inferno is meant to be the follow-up OS to Plan9 which, for it’s time, was pretty neat I think.

Since Inferno is licensed under a Semi-free license and it runs in a virtual machine on Linux, I decided to give it a try. Pretty neat. Check out the screenshot:

Installation was a breeze. Simply follow the instructions on the website and in the PDF. Takes about 5 minutes and consists out of downloading the neccesary tar.gz files (I downloaded Linux.tgz, inferno.tgz and utils.tgz), unpacking the shizzles, running the install script, setting your path to include the unpacked ‘bin’ dir and running it. Pretty easy as long as you follow the manual.

Too bad there aren’t any apps for it.