Project info for Inferno

Created 1 Aug 2005 at 13:40 UTC by uriel, last modified 13 Sep 2009 at 23:01 UTC by uriel.

Freshmeat page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inferno/

Notes:

Inferno is a compact operating system for building cross-platform distributed systems based on technology and ideas of Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

Some of it's features are:

• Advanced capabilities for building distributed systems.
• Safe, concurrent programming environment.
• Architecture independent virtual machine.
• Portable environment for distributed applications:
  • Runs as a full OS on bare hardware.
  • Same application environment hosted by another OS.
• Full development toolkit.

• A Descent into Limbo by Brian Kernighan.
• The Limbo Programming Language by Dennis M. Ritchie and Addendum by Vita Nuova.

License: GPL/MIT

This project has the following developers:

• uriel is a Helper.
• rsc is a Helper.

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

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