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Unfortunately the current development state of Inferno is partially in Limbo (pun intended). This is why plan 9 users like myself tend not to mention it. The co
by MisterTea 8y ago
Unfortunately the current development state of Inferno is partially in Limbo (pun intended). This is why plan 9 users like myself tend not to mention it. The code is maintained by Vita Nova and available as open source but sees little if any development. There have been various ports but nothing is maintained. There is no stable bare metal image for i386 or Arm boards like RPi. It also doesn't build on 64 bit platforms, you need a 32bit chroot to build and 32 bit libs to run. It also fails to build on OpenBSD due to rthreads. I'd love to work on it but simply don't have the time. As for now, 9front boots and runs on modern hardware. I have a CPU server running an a low power Celeron J1900 board. However, I do have Inferno running hosted on my Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately it's quite unstable and crashes frequently.
- pjmlp 8y agoThat has nothing to do with the technical achievements of Inferno and Limbo. It would be like wondering about what UNIX used to be like in V6, ignoring everything else that followed up.