plan 9 from bell labs

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figured it out
it's a very based operating system, and i will elaborate

basically, plan 9 from bell labs (yes, the entire thing is its name, "Plan 9 from Bell Labs". it's a pun on the name of the terrible movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space") is an operating system that uses multiple computers as one computer

for example, if you set up a plan 9 server, it's just running plan 9, nothing special
but if you download drawterm, the external terminal for using plan9 on other machines, when you connect to that server, your computer becomes part of the system. it uses your resources, and can access your files

essentially, you can make a big ol supercomputer with it if you really wanted
 

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It's not schizo because it's fakeI. It'sbecause you make a thread about something that only like 10k french people know about with only "the fuck is it"
1. not french
2. i only know about it because SDF has a board dedicated to it because SDF is literally built for *nix nerds
3. it's probably what the CIA uses
 

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i have, since my last post, managed to get drawterm working tolerably and installed a modded version of the window manager, rio, so now i can set a background image instead of it just being grey
slowly getting more used to it (fuck acme though, i will never understand acme)
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