On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > What do people know about this project? Apparently, the goal is to > extend the Linux kernel so that it is possible to run some Windows > programs natively. I found out about it checking on the ReactOS > forums to see if anything positive had been posted.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > My current understanding is that it's a seperate Open Source Project > to create a new kernel, not extend the existing one, by > porting key feats of the Win kernel into the Linux kernel. > > I would venture to guess this would be offered as a separate optionally > kernel for quite a while before potentially becoming the new mainline kernel. > > One of the biggest barriers to mainstream Linux adoption is being happy > with Linux/FOSS alternatives to MS Win apps or the the inconvenience of > having to run apps in WINE. Yes, I know this project well, it is developed since 2005 by several Chinese, one of them is Mao Decao, a famous operating system professor in Zhejiang University, has written one popular thick book to analyze linux kernel in Chinese, he is also the leader of the whole developer team; one of another developer of this team I have also met in Shenzhen when I was still in China; the project is mainly sponsored by Insigma, also a Chinese company based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang University; quote from wikipedia, the word "Longene" in Chinese is also the name of a kind of excellent tea in ancient times; "Linux Unified Kernel, also known as Longene[1][not in citation given] and informally as LUK, is an operating system kernel intended to be binary-compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows and Linux.[2] In order to accomplish this, key features of the Windows kernel are ported to the Linux kernel." the Linux Unified Kernel project is licensed under GPLv2, a good open source project, welcome to hackers all over the world~ http://www.longene.org/ http://www.longene.org/en/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Kernel http://www.insigma.com.cn/ I'm currently doing experiments to get its source, compile and run several common win apps on popular linux distros, its running performance is definitely much better than userland wine emulation; and Longene also has a goal to run win drivers .sys file natively, that did not achieve yet, and maybe more difficult than just wine emulation; at Longene development early stage, it has many reference to WINE, ReactOS, and NDiswrapper projects, which are all GPL licensed, so the ecosystem works well; I have a plan to write a detailed article to collect all these steps involved and some of its internal features and principles; -- Cheng Renquan (程任全), from Singapore _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
