Inferno

Inferno (http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/) is a system which can be hosted on many different architectures and can be used for distributed computing.

• InfernoTutorial This is a good place to start to learn the basics
• InstallingInferno More detailed installation instructions for different platforms
• Presentation about Inferno Michael Jeffrey (CEO of Vita Nuova) gave a talk to the Reading e-Science Centre on March 25th 2004. These are his slides (HTML format).
• InfernoGuides Guides to doing useful things in Inferno
• InfernoWorkflowExperiment Experiment with creating and composing simple remote services in Inferno. Is this suitable as a replacement for a Web Services architecture?
• StyxLibraries Implementations of the Styx Protocol

Useful links

Documentation

• Paper: "The Inferno Operating System"
• A Descent into Limbo by Brian W. Kernighan
• The Limbo Programming Language by Dennis M. Ritchie
• Other papers about different parts of the Inferno environment
• Other Inferno documentation
• http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/index.html Manual pages (more up to date than printed versions)

FAQ

• Inferno FAQ

Mailing lists

• http://www.vitanuova.com/news/newsgroup.html New Inferno mailing list, archived here. Replaces the old ones (http://lists.topica.com/lists/inferno/, comp.os.inferno and comp.lang.limbo), which were either dead or filled with spam.

Limbo source code examples

• http://www.gemusehaken.org/ipwl/ Source code from "Inferno Programming with Limbo" - code is from an older version of Limbo, but many examples are still valid
• http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/co/ Inferno contributions site.

Other stuff

• Lecture by Phillip Stanley-Marbell, author of "Inferno Programming with Limbo"
• http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~dplewis/research/thin/thin.html Inferno Thin Client White Paper
• http://www.sigda.org/Archives/ProceedingArchives/Dac/Dac99/papers/1999/dac99/slides/dp09_01.ppt PowerPoint introduction to Inferno
• http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/www8/www8-lrau.ppt More techical PowerPoint presentation
• http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_97/journal/vol4/msa1/difference.html Comparison between Java and Inferno
• http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/inferno/html/00_Preface.htmld/index.html An introduction to use, architecture and programming by Bell Laboratories

User stories

• http://www.vitanuova.com/solutions/grid/news/evotecoai.pdf Use of Inferno Grid by Evotec OAI

-- JonBlower - 20 Mar 2004