On Sunday April 6 2008 14:44:15 bussuser wrote: > hendrik wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:55:00AM -0500, bussuser wrote: > > > Has the wine project team pondered whether to move WINE into the > > > kernel? > > > > In my opinion, there's too much in the kernel already. But I'm not part > > of the wine project or part of the kernel team. > > > > -- hendrik > > In my opinion, the linux kernel should have two version - server version > and desktop version, just like ms windows. No, I do not see any reason to have different kernels for desktop and server. If someone *really* needs special kernel he/she can and should compile it from source because such need indicate very specific (non-standard) requirements. BTW, I'm using similar kernels on my desktop and two servers. > so the technique like as unified kernel can enter into the desktop linux > kernel. it can help linux to have a big desktop market share. Why do you think that servers don't need WINE? Real world example: I have collocated server which runs Windows software. It is doing important financial work so if it fails, I can and probably will lose some money. Therefore stability is really important issue - so Windows of any version isn't an option here; Windows always crashes sooner or later (yeah, I checked that multiple times), I cannot use it. Fortunately WINE solves this problem - if Windows software is 100% stable with it (which is easy to determine after some weeks or months of testing) then I can be sure that it will work really well even for important applications. Performance is also important so if there is some way to improve it somewhat - that's would be good. However, I didn't actually tried "unified kernel" so I cannot actually tell how useful it is. But at least I can tell if it is useful for desktop then it can be useful for server too (if it really improves performance of Windows applications). Of course if it isn't 100% stable then it is useless. Unfortunately so far I didn't find any benchmarks results which indicate that it really improves performance and I didn't find information about its stability; personally I don't have enough free time to test such experimental thing myself. For now I have some doubts about its practical usefulness (lack of good documentation, no real-world benchmark results which proves usefulness, no sync with current kernel and WINE versions, and other problems).
