Re: [9fans] Plan 9 != Inferno... right?

[a@9srv.net]

Inferno (and Limbo) has its own mailing list. Talk on those topics
isn't particularly discouraged here, as there's obviously lots of
overlap in both ideas and community, but it mostly lives on
elsewhere.

They're conceptually very similar, and share much of their
implementation. There are important differences, however.
Limbo only really runs within Inferno (which can then run on top
of Plan 9, FreeBSD, Windows, whatever), and you can't run
user-mode C code in Inferno.

If you're looking for rio and fossil in particular, you need to use
Plan 9 (or 9vx). There is an acme for Inferno. If you want
something to fill a semi-traditional server or workstation role,
you probably want Plan 9. If you want a neat application
programming environment, or an environment for embedded
systems, you probably want Inferno. But neither are always
true.

Most of the time i wish the two were more similar. Or maybe
more interchangable.