What is in FOLK? (as of version 2.4.0 for the 2.6.12 kernel)

Please note that the patch series for the 2.6 Linux kernels is relatively new and is nowhere near as complete as the one for the 2.4 Linux kernels. This will change. Rapidly.

• Andrew Morton's Patch Collection
  This is probably one of the most complete patch archives out there at the moment. A complete summary of what is in there will be included at a later date.


• Click
  A software router that can be loaded into the Linux kernel, by MIT.


• COMEDI (0.7.60)
  Control and Measurement Device Interface (COMEDI) is support for a variety of CAM devices.


• ESFQ
  Enhanced Stochastic Fairness Queueing is a mechanism for improving the fairness of TCP/IP network connections. This is a driver that supports this mechanism under Linux. There are many such fairness algorithms, for different types of situation.


• GAMMA
  Genoa Active Message MAchine - a very high-speed, low-latency protocol for LANs. Intended for fast clusters.


• Layer 7 Classifier
  Allows netfilter to block or redirect by the type of application. This does not use the port number, rather it looks at the first few packets in a connection for strings that are guaranteed to be present.


• Linux on LEON
  The LEON is an LGPLed clone of the SPARC 8 processor, initially developed by the European Space Agency. These patches allow you to run on this architecture.


• Linux Intermediate Queueing
  This allows you to create virtual devices which you can direct traffic to and from. IMQ is useful for two situations - when you want to shape incoming traffic (Linux normally can't do that very well) and when you want to share the same netfilter or shaping rules across multiple devices.


• Mobile IPv6 For Linux
  Supports the Mobile IP protocol for IP version 6. Allows you to move a machine between networks without losing existing connections. Has a lot of potential for wireless VoIP.


• RTAI
  Hard Real-Time for Linux, for certain architectures only. (Check their website for the current list.) Not everything can take advantage of it, though! The only decent soft real-time for Linux that anything can use is by TimeSys and although their code is GPLed, the GPL doesn't obligate to them to offer the source to anyone for free.


• RSBAC Role-Based Security Patch
  A role-based security patch for Linux, offering fine-tuned access control.
  This is finally getting fully merged, as Linux Security Modules is only a partial solution and RSBAC covers a lot that LSM misses.


• USAGI
  IPv6 patches for the Linux kernel. Although the standard kernel supports IPv6, this is supposedly a cleaner and more comprehensive implementation.


• Web100
  Sophisticated instrumentation for the TCP/IP stack, for the purpose of identifying bottlenecks and errors in the kernel.


• Weighted Round Robin
  This implements a form of fair queueing for Linux' network code.

The Functionally-Overloaded Linux Kernel

A big thank you to SourceForge, without whose resources this project would be a great deal smaller, much less interesting, and definitely harder to download.