Lucerne

[David Baron]

AKA, the Unified Kernel Project, out of China! This patches the linux kernel
to provide windows kernel-level services in parallel to linux services and
patches wine to use these rather than emulate them.

Anyone used, had success with this?
Worthwhile?

Patching kernels, while not for all newbies, is fairly quick and hopefully
painless, at least in Debian. Patching wine is a big job. Since any wine must
test on startup whether Lucerne patches and drivers are there, it might be
nice if their thing got incorporated into mainline winery. Got 'em, use 'em,
or else run just like now.

[vitamin]

This patches the linux kernel to provide windows kernel-level services in parallel to linux services and patches wine to use these rather than emulate them.

Sounds very fishy to me. More along the lines of Reactos project (use of leaked win source code, disassebling, analyzing win libraries under debugger).

In short - you can't do stuff like that without knowing things you not supposed to know. Or you won't get anywhere (see Wine's ntoskrnl).

[James McKenzie]

David Baron wrote:

AKA, the Unified Kernel Project, out of China! This patches the linux kernel
to provide windows kernel-level services in parallel to linux services and
patches wine to use these rather than emulate them.

I would be very wary of this project. There are legal reasons that some
things cannot be done that are legal in some areas but not others.

Anyone used, had success with this?
Worthwhile?

Patching kernels, while not for all newbies, is fairly quick and hopefully
painless, at least in Debian. Patching wine is a big job. Since any wine must
test on startup whether Lucerne patches and drivers are there, it might be
nice if their thing got incorporated into mainline winery. Got 'em, use 'em,
or else run just like now.

Been there, done that. Patching kernels is NOT for the newbie.

Until this undergoes a legal review, I would not use this code.

The LUK project is doing what this is doing, but for all jurisdictions.

James McKenzie

[DaVince]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Kernel contains a lot of information on the unified kernel. Glancing over the article I could not find any information about any possible legal issues, though.

[James McKenzie]

DaVince wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Kernel contains a lot of information on the unified kernel. Glancing over the article I could not find any information about any possible legal issues, though.

The LUK is trying to build into the kernel functions needed for Wine for
hardware support. This project has a particular smell to it, and it is
not good. We will have to wait and see what happens in the legal arena.

James McKenzie