Linux kernel module graphical configuration system.

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From	Rob Brew <sputnik2012@gmail.com>
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Subject	Linux kernel module graphical configuration system.
Date	Wed, 08 May 2019 22:50:01 +0200
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Hi everyone.

I've built a client / server architecture to facilitate the installation of
Linux kernel modules as my Master's dissertation at Kent University in the
UK. It's liscenced as open source.

It's a proof of concept.  The server allows developers to submit kernel
module configurations in a standard Makefile format via GitHub.  The
client, written in C++, allows the end users to install said kernel module
configurations in using a graphical interface.  Votes by the user on the
success of module installs allow successful module configurations to be
recommended or depreciated.

The site is at www.linuxconf.feedthepenguin.org.  I am happy to continue to
work on this for all major Linux versions. I would need a team of people to
vet each configuration, ultimately we are inserting code into the kernel.
The team would ensure that each Makefile will not be malicious and that
each binary is from a trusted source.

This could, when in production, negate a major problem of Linux adoption,
that is the installation of non supported drivers using the terminal.  The
program also supports using apt-get to install driver packages provided by
the repositories, in a graphical fashion.  The contributing developer, if
their submission is popular, can have their details displayed to the end
user as a form of reimbursement for their time.

 As a proof of concept, and with no merit to grades in the dissertation i
built it for Ubuntu. I would like to see it built for each major Linux
distribution by package manager.  I have further ideas on how it can be
improved.  The text of my dissertation is at
https://github.com/rydal/dissertation-doc.
I have further ways of improving this, and would like to see it become
standard.

I am not subscribed to the Linux kernel mailing list, if you are interested
please email me on rob@rydal.org.

Thanks.

Rob Brew.

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