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by barumi 2061 days ago
Honest question: what stops any unix to achieve the same thing through a similar interface?
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it'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.