billgamesh
rio’s color scheme may be modified by editing the .c configuration files and re-compiling:
Note: Someone will mock you for doing this.
What’s wrong with the pretty gray background?
Plan9 is sleeping. It works great and is actively developed, but I think it will remain a research OS. People/companies don’t want to buy a really effective solution they want a pinky promise from another company. We’ll eventually get embed windows on risc machines and it’ll suck.
Cluster computers will still be discrete tho. OP is aesthetic and cool. future computers will be piles of servers and silly iot devices and silly smartphones
Drew Devault is building one to test HareLang now. It’s called Ares
The only real god. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten
spoiler
It’s based on a soft science book about a guy who can see into the future, has a super-computer brain and controls people with his voice. In later book a guy’s clone gets his dead memories because he was ordered to kill his buddy. Another guy lives for 3000 years by putting worms on his skin.
It’s a fun series with some philosophical themes. I recommend it. scientific accuracy was not a goal and seems beside the point, but it makes sense for a science entertainer to have something to say about it while it’s trending
P.S. their plated skin is involved in their movement. Think it’s less a wriggle sometimes and more like a sound wave. compress expand?