Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. The name of the operating system and of its associated programs, as well as of the company Vita Nuova that produced it, were inspired by the literary heritage of Dante Alighieri, particularly the Divine Comedy.
Inferno runs in hosted mode under several different operating systems or natively on a range of hardware architectures. In each configuration the operating system presents the same standard interfaces to its applications. A communications protocol called Styx is applied uniformly to access both local and remote resources. As of the fourth edition of Inferno, Styx is identical to Plan 9's newer version of its hallmark 9P protocol, 9P2000.
Applications are written in the type-safe Limbo programming language, whose binary representation is identical over all platforms, and is executed using Just-in-time compilation techniques in a virtual machine.
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Free download of Inferno and a browser plug-in is available - From this Vita Nuova page you can download a free version of Inferno or order one of the commercial distributions. A plug-in version for Web browsers is also available.
LinuxDevices.com: Lucent spinoff Vita Nuova releases Inferno OS source - Inferno source code made available under a liberal, low cost subscription plan.
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Vita Nuova Holdings Ltd. - Inferno: The OS for distributed applications on network devices. Lead distributor for Inferno and Plan 9 OSs.
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