I've been wanting to try and run the Inferno operating system again, so I built a 32-bit Debian VM just for this purpose (since Inferno is still 32-bit), and I didn't realize until a lot of search-fu later that more modern GCC versions (like version 10 and above) break compilation of Inferno's tools, as well as emu. Luckily there's a pull request on BitBucket for the code that looks to fix all that.

If it works, I'm definitely pulling in the Inferno source code, applying the patch, and pushing it to my own GitHub and SourceHut. We gotta keep this alive somehow!

(And next time I'll just use OpenBSD or 9front or something to do this! 😎

#softwarepreservation #infernoos #Linux #hacking