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Interview With WOLK Creator Marc-Christian Peterse

Posted by Hemos on from the worth-reading dept.

Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has spoken with Marc-Christian Petersen, who originated the WOLK project in March of 2002. WOLK is the Working Overloaded Linux Kernel, a large set of nearly 450 useful patches applied against the current stable 2.4 Linux kernel tree. The project has recently expanded to offer a second 'secure' patchset, this one against the older stable 2.2 tree. In this interview, Marc-Christian Petersen tells the history behind WOLK and discusses many of the patches included."

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  1. Things I'd like to see in the kernel... by Bollie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is just my personal wishlist:

    1) A standard hardware acceleration layer for 2D and 3D cards, something we can ask the NVidia people to add to their drivers and code equivalents for other cards.
    2) Wine intergration. Routing Win32 messages through the kernel would be kinda nice.
    3) Java acceleration. Hooks for some standard Java functions: this would help a lot in some specific embedded situations.
    4) ACL support for ports and stuff (like the security patches).
    5) A standard "driver package" format containing the kernel module, user-mode tools and installation instructions for binary only (yecc) drivers. (One driver fits all distros!)

    I've been working with Linux-based systems since '97 and I have to say, it's just getting better and better. I'm sure a lot of the above is would actually not be good in most kernels, but since one of Linux's strong points is scalability, I'd really like to see Linux take on the desktop, handheld and server market!