diff --git a/pkgs/applications/inferno/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/inferno/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index de9be76b6e45..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/inferno/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchhg, stdenv, xorg, makeWrapper }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  # Inferno is a rolling release from a mercurial repository. For the verison number
-  # of the package I'm using the mercurial commit number.
-  rev = "785";
-  name = "inferno-${rev}";
-  host = "Linux";
-  objtype = "386";
-
-  src = fetchhg {
-    url    = "https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os";
-    sha256 = "1b428ma9fi5skvfrxp91dr43a62kax89wmx7950ahc1cxyx90k7x";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper ] ++ (with xorg; [ libX11 libXpm libXext xextproto ]);
-
-  infernoWrapper = ./inferno;
-
-  configurePhase = ''
-    sed -e 's@^ROOT=.*$@ROOT='"$out"'/share/inferno@g' \
-        -e 's@^OBJTYPE=.*$@OBJTYPE=${objtype}@g' \
-        -e 's@^SYSHOST=.*$@SYSHOST=${host}@g' \
-        -i mkconfig
-    # Get rid of an annoying warning
-    sed -e 's/_BSD_SOURCE/_DEFAULT_SOURCE/g' \
-        -i ${host}/${objtype}/include/lib9.h
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/share/inferno
-    cp -r . $out/share/inferno
-    ./makemk.sh
-    export PATH=$PATH:$out/share/inferno/Linux/386/bin
-    mk nuke
-    mk
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    # Installs executables in $out/share/inferno/${host}/${objtype}/bin
-    mk install
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    # Install start-up script
-    makeWrapper $infernoWrapper $out/bin/inferno \
-      --suffix PATH ':' "$out/share/inferno/Linux/386/bin" \
-      --set INFERNO_ROOT "$out/share/inferno"
-  '';
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "A compact distributed operating system for building cross-platform distributed systems";
-    homepage = http://inferno-os.org/;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ doublec kovirobi ];
-    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/inferno/inferno b/pkgs/applications/inferno/inferno
deleted file mode 100755
index 6eb6da8861a5..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/inferno/inferno
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env bash
-
-
-export INFERNO_HOME="$HOME/.local/share/inferno"
-if [ -n "$XDG_DATA_HOME" ]
-  then export INFERNO_HOME="$XDG_DATA_HOME/inferno"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d $INFERNO_HOME ]; then
-  mkdir -p $INFERNO_HOME
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d $INFERNO_HOME/tmp ]; then
-  mkdir -p $INFERNO_HOME/tmp
-fi
-
-for d in $INFERNO_HOME/{acme,appl,dis,lib,man,module,usr/inferno}; do
-  if [ ! -d $d ]; then
-    mkdir -p $d
-    cp --no-preserve=all -r $INFERNO_ROOT/${d#$INFERNO_HOME/}/* $d/
-    chmod -R +w $d
-  fi
-done
-
-if [ ! -d $INFERNO_HOME/usr/$USER ]; then
-  mkdir -p $INFERNO_HOME/usr/$USER
-  cp -r $INFERNO_ROOT/usr/inferno/* $INFERNO_HOME/usr/$USER/
-  chmod -R +w $INFERNO_HOME/usr/$USER
-fi
-
-exec emu "$@" /dis/sh.dis -c "bind -b -c '#U*$INFERNO_HOME/' /; /dis/sh.dis"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d31d2b6125c0..6e290571fc52 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17503,8 +17503,6 @@ with pkgs;
   # Impressive, formerly known as "KeyJNote".
   impressive = callPackage ../applications/office/impressive { };
 
-  inferno = pkgsi686Linux.callPackage ../applications/inferno { };
-
   inkscape = callPackage ../applications/graphics/inkscape {
     lcms = lcms2;
     poppler = poppler_0_61;