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If any mainstream unix-like OS kept the promise that "everything is a file" (like Plan9), adding a secondary monitor from another pc could be easy like: mo
by gosub 6y ago
If any mainstream unix-like OS kept the promise that "everything is a file" (like Plan9), adding a secondary monitor from another pc could be easy like:
mount /dev/screen2 user@remotehost:/dev/screen1
- rangibaby 6y agoThat is so easy it makes me want to cry
- copperx 6y agoThere are absolutely no security considerations there, though.
- barumi 6y agoHonest question: what stops any unix to achieve the same thing through a similar interface?
- rektide 6y agoit's conceivable one could build a Direct Rendering Manager kernel device that is a virtual software display, that stores buffers & makes them accessible over the network. It might expose a vnc connection that the other laptop can log in to. Mount in Linux is only for filesystems though, so it'd never look & join with the same kind of pervasive, ubiquitous any-interface slickness that plan9 had.