Project Utopia

Project Utopia is the name for the aggregation and integration of a number of projects centrered on autodetecting and autoloading drivers for computer hardware (particulary hot-swappable hardware such as USB and IEEE 1394 (aka. "Firewire") devices). The project seems to be most closely associated with Gnome and Fedora.

It encompasses: HAL, sysfs, udev, D-BUS, hotplug, and apps like gnome-volume-manager.

I do not know if it has any connection with kudzu (or discover for that matter).

External links

Some possibly useful links:

• Robert Love's Aug 2005 article in Linux Journal (www.linuxjournal.com)
• Robert Love's 7 April 2004 page on kerneltrap.org (kerneltrap.org)
• http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/2004-April/msg00001.html
• 391-GNOME-and-Project-Utopia.html (www.sebastian-bergmann.de)
• http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.utopia
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fProjectUtopiaBuildDebian
• http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal

• http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
• http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/
• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5315
• Improving Linux Driver Installation by Jono Bacon, 09/09/2004, in O'Reilly Sys Admin magazine (www.linuxdevcenter.com)