Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones

This is a demonstration of Inferno running on an Android phone. Sandia National Labs has adapted the Inferno operating system to act as a more phone-oriented OS, allowing us to make calls, send and receive SMS, and use the phone data network. For more information, see https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home

I apologize for the fuzzy screen view and the slightly muddled audio; I had to sit behind my laptop and hold the camera in front of the screen, making it difficult to see what the camera was actually capturing; it also put me at a bad mic angle.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• inferno
• plan 9
• operating system
• phone
• cell
• mobile
• android
• linux
• nexus s
• google
• bell labs
• vita nuova

[therealsean4u]

I couldn't pay any attention to the presentation at all: the idea that Sandia National Labs can't afford a separate camera has shaken me to my core.

[slawmasta]

@therealsean4u The problem is that, for security reasons, you can only use official blessed and sanctified cameras to take pictures on-site... and it's hard to find one of those at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. So I went home and used my laptop.

[behael]

Those people flamming has no idea what Inferno/Plan9 OSes are ;)

Great job!

[gellenburg]

Kudos! Awesome demo and shows just how flexible the Android platform and ecosystem is.

[lolnameless]

@empdapez quvi,

or dont visit youtube, you know, google is just evil, youtube is doing something tricky to prevent you from viewing video other than using the flashplayer

[JamesManes]

@Tynen @gellenburg Inferno is Plan 9, not Linux... a;lkdlajfa;lkjfd

[HerrSeale]

NeXT, a Plan9 launcher?

LULZ

[fmyoen]

@WretchedWinston I think it's just an experimental UI which will be completely rewritten in case Inferno will seriously move to the smartphones.

[WretchedWinston]

Awesome demonstration! I love the simplicity of Inferno's UI. No distracting candy. I feel proud to know somebody is using the inferno project in such a unique way that is quite relevant to our modern age of mobile phones!

[empdapez]

I hate this, "upgrade your Adobe Flash Player, to view this video."

[Tynen]

@gellenburg you mean how flexible Linux is?

[peterpasschier]

@gellenburg It's really not Android, it's just build on top of the same very stripped Linux kernel as Android.

[yaosio]

It's like it's 1994 and I just got my first Windows 3.1 machine.

[flynnnrg]

What version of Cyanogen Mod are you running? I tried installing it on top of Cyanogen Mod 7 on my Nexus S and all I got was a black screen and a fall back to recovery mode.

Has anyone succeeded in installing it?