[aklug] Inferno OS: The Continuing Adventures

Worked with Inferno a little bit more today. As I mentioned previously,
it is built on a virtual machine, so it can run either as a native
operating system, or it can run as an application on another operating
system (Linux, Windows, and handful of others). So I downloaded the code
and built it to run as an app on a Gentoo Linux box.

When first started, the vm runs with just a shell interface, but it
comes with a window manager that you can start of you wish. The window
manager provides a desktop-like environment, with a number of programs,
including a shell, a file manager, an editor, a few system tools, two
games, and a minimalistic web browser. And it was all running inside 32
MB of RAM space.

I put it through a little bit of stress testing: one built-in app
eventually gave way with a floating-point error, and the vm itself
faltered one time when I overloaded it with input events.

I didn't have time to get into the signature features of Inferno
(namespaces, networking, API) but the experience so far has been
enticing enough to keep me interested.

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