Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
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Inferno can run as a standalone OS or hosted in an existing OS. In the latter case an emu executable runs and executes as a virtual operating system. An application written in Limbo runs inside this virtual OS. When distributing such an application you can install Inferno on the target machine with the application compiled code inside the filesystem of... more →
It's the end of the year and I'm going through some of the patches I have for projects and putting them online so I have a record of them. I'm working through things I did on Inferno OS. # Source respositories The official Inferno source is hosted in a mercurial repository on Google Code. There is also a repository containing... more →
Inferno OS ships with a version of the acme text editor. I've tried to use acme on and off for a bit and it never stuck. I've always been a vim and emacs user. Recently I watched a video by Russ Cox called A Tour of Acme that motivated me to try it again. The video is short and covers... more →
Inferno OS provides a mechanism to connect to remote computers and execute commands similar to the way SSH works on Unix systems. The command to do this is cpu. This can be used to execute commands, start a remote shell, and share GUI applications. To use cpu you'll need to set up authentication and encryption. This provides the mechanism to... more →
I've written before about how Inferno makes it easy to share resources across devices and networks. In this post I show how to use IRC from within Inferno and then how to run the IRC connection handling on a server and the GUI on a client machine. The server can stay connected giving a persistent IRC connection similar to how... more →
In my post about sharing resources in Inferno I used the -A command line switch to commands to disable authentication. This allowed anyone to make connections and the data was passed across them unencrypted. This post explains how to set up an Inferno system to use authentication and to encrypt connections. # Signing Server For authentication to work each machine... more →
I posted previously about running the Inferno operating system on an Android phone. Inferno on a phone device interests me because of the approaches it takes on distributing resources across machines. By having such a system on multiple machines and devices it should be possible to use features of the phone on a desktop system (like SMS messaging, copying photos... more →
Updated 2014-12-29 - I've moved the patch files to github and provided updated build instructions there. Other than those build instruction updates most of this post is still valid. Inferno is a small operating system that can be built to run on Host operating systems as a user process or natively on bare hardware. Inferno uses ideas from the Plan... more →