Quietly and unobtrusively, the distributed operating system Inferno64 has been released – a modern rework of the classic OS Inferno, designed for 64-bit platforms (amd64/arm64) and capable of running on Linux as well.
The project is positioned as a 'next-generation distributed computing environment': the system combines heterogeneous devices (old laptops, phones, desktops) into a single peer-to-peer computing network. It is based on the classic Inferno model with a file representation of resources and the 9P protocol.
Features and innovations of the system:
- each process is a the virtual machine;
- everything is a file, a legacy from plan9;
- distributed grid computations;
- Dis VM with JIT compilation for amd64 and arm64;
- integrated SQLite and updated cryptography/compression;
- file interface to LLM (via integration with llama.cpp);
- Wayland client and updated audio subsystem for Linux.
Particular emphasis has been placed on using the system as a platform for distributed computing and local execution of AI workloads (including agent scenarios).
Project on GitHub: https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno64
Source: linux.org.ru
