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).