Diatom is will be a program capable of running the program of
one "central" computer on another "client" computer when imitating the
central computer's environment. This is accomplished with unencrypted
UDP communication and ptrace-based syscall emulation.
So, here's the thing: I am just one person. I have written thousands of lines of code, and I will have to write a lot more code (the estimation is over 25,000 lines) in order to put this project anywhere near a finished state. Therefore, seeing as though this is a Sysiphean task as a whole, it will not be worked on much I don't suspect. I won't consider it dead, but it's not so much alive, either. Of course, contributions are welcome; misery loves company!
Can't say.
Can't say.
Can't say. Prolly not tho.
A diatom is a unicellular kind of algae and is the base form of plankton. I found this close enough (but not too close) to amoeba, as in the old amoeba distributed operating system from the 90s.