105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS

60 Seconds of WIP · Oct 23, 2025 · 1m

Here’s a tidbit from the backers-only special edition of Networking for System Administrators.

All those shrooms were one interconnected, internally networked living thing.

Networked. Sort of like computers.

Except mushroom networks are efficient. The nodes eliminate interoperability issues by requiring identical hardware and a fully patched ShroomOS. The Internet would be infinitely better if every node ran BeOS or, better still, Fifth Edition Bell Laboratories UNIX on VAX. But the Humungous Fungus infects trees and shrubs much like the Internet infects washing machines and democracy. Most…