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Using Inferno at Work
- davidcollantes 14y agoWhat is Inferno?
- agumonkey 14y agoAn alternative distributed os, descendant to plan9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29
- michaelmior 14y agoI'm with you. I find it odd that after a rather long blog post about it, I still had no idea what it is.
- 1337p337 14y agoPrevious entries on the blog cover introductions to the OS in a bit more depth. Introductions for it are not too difficult to find overall, but anything past scratching the surface is less easy to find; that's the gap I was attempting to fill.
- agumonkey 14y agoI am very excited to see real usage of ~obscure OSes. Other articles on this blog mention even lesser known ones.
- catenate 14y agoI have used inferno every work day for the past several years, either as Acme-SAC on Windows or natively compiled on a Linux machine. I have found that the minimal unix, coupled with the Acme interface, mean I spend a lot more time getting things done, and a lot less time (almost zero) retyping. Since it's a VM with its own shell and systems language, I can port my daily tools easily between whatever machines I'm working on, which has been great at client sites where I can just run my environment from a usb stick on one of their loaner computers.