"Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs, but is now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28operating_system%29</a>
I like this. I'd like to see more of Plan 9 in general use. Since I started reading about it I've thought it would be cool if a big company did for it roughly what Apple did for Unix with OS X, preferably in a more open-source manner.
This is great. I've been wanting my phone to be a node on my grid for a long time. I'm glad some people got motivated and actually hacked it all together. The dream of ubiquitous 9p/styx lives!
Here's a short video I threw together demonstrating the phone. It's pretty spur of the moment, and the video quality is low, but you may be able to get an idea of how it works: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw</a><p>Also check out <a href="https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home</a> for screenshots.
Why on earth didn't anyone seriously think about Inferno for mobile devices? How much polish could've gone into Inferno given all the work on things like Maemo, Meego and Android...
Wow! Can it run acme? I'm wondering because "treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse" If so, how is the right and middle click used? Anyway utterly cool stuff!
I used to be a huge Inferno fan, but with Go around (Rob and Ken both worked on Inferno, Rob was even responsible for the name), I wonder how relevant it is this days.<p>Go has a much more vibrant community and development is blindly fast. Given Go's dramatic memory efficiency advantages over Java I would hope Google will push it on Andriod soon.<p>Go code can already run on Android, but building Android apps in Go is another matter, but with Brad Fitzpatrick moving from the Android to the Go team recently, I'm optimistic.
I LOVE so much that #b2g and inferno are using the nice Linux Android base to quickly bootstrap new mobile platforms. Get the benefit of a large existing install base, choice of devices, etc.<p>I'll be interested to see if the other Plan9 inspired projects find a home in a similar circumstance. There's a surprising number of tools being fostered by Google and Googlers (in their 20% time) that harken back to P9.