KCP VS linux

Compare KCP vs linux and see what are their differences.

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KCP linux
7 980
14,629 170,074
- -
2.9 10.0
14 days ago about 13 hours ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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KCP

Posts with mentions or reviews of KCP. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-30.

linux

Posts with mentions or reviews of linux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.
  • Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    These are a bit easier to see what's going on:

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e...

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d5cf50dafc9dd5faa1e61...

    Unfortunately Github doesn't have a way to render symbols for whitespace, but you can tell by selecting the spaces that the previous version had leading tabs. Linus changed it so that the tokens `default` and the number e.g. `12` are also separated by a tab. This is tricky, because the token "default" is seven characters, it will always give this added tab a width of 1 char which makes it always layout the same as if it were a space no matter if you use tab widths of 1, 2, 4, or 8.

  • Show HN: Running TempleOS in user space without virtualization
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
  • PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
    There was also a Gentoo effort to run atop FreeBSD[0]. The challenge of course is that afaik none of the BSD kernel ABIs are considered stable. The stable interface is the BSD libc. That said, with binfmt_misc, I don't see a reason you couldn't just run (at least some) FreeBSD binaries on Linux with a thin syscall translation layer (rather something like qemu-system) and then your layer hooked via binfmt_misc. I'm not aware of anyone who has done this for FreeBSD, but prior efforts existed as alternate binfmts for SysVr4/5 ELF binaries[2]. Either way would take some elbow grease, but you *might* even be able just reuse binfmt_elf and just have a new interpreter for FreeBSD elf.

    [0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD

    [1] https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html

    [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/binfmt_elf....

  • Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    > The original less-than check was deemed incorrect

    It was only deemed incorrect because of an information leak. Not because it's a valid use-case for user space to copy smaller portions of *hwrpb into user space. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc71...

  • Linus Torvalds accepts a merge commit to the Linux kernel
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
  • TinyMCE (also) moving from MIT to GPL
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    Correct. And the combined work needs to carry the MIT license text and copyright attributions for the MIT software authors. With binary distribution it must also be overt, not hidden in some source code drop, but directly accompanying the binary.

    Many people who talk about relicensing never credit the MIT developers or distribute the MIT license text. "Because it's GPL now."

    I don't think that you believe that, but many developers do.

    Some don't see the need for source code scans for Open Source compliance, because the license.txt says GPL, so it's GPL. Prime example is the Linux kernel. There is code under different licenses in there, but people don't even read https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING till the end ("In addition, other licenses may also apply.") and conclude it's simply GPL 2 and nothing else.

    Also be aware that sublicensing is not the same as relicensing.

  • Linus Torvalds is looking for a more modern GUI editor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    > Does he have something against it?

    He notoriously hates GNU Emacs, yes.

    https://marc.info/?m=122955159617722

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

  • The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    So If we would only count code and not comments, it is only 9489 LoC Rust. Which would be about 0.03% and if we take all lines and not only LoC it would be around 0.05%

    [0] https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei

    [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b401b621758e46812da...

  • Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
    AIUI fsync is built on futex_waitv which has been upstreamed. So this has to be more than that.

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a0eb2da92b715d0c97b...

  • Tell HN: GitHub no longer readable without JavaScript
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
    git clone --no-checkout --depth 1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git $dir

What are some alternatives?

When comparing KCP and linux you can also consider the following projects:

Simple-WebSocket-Server

zen-kernel - Zen Patched Kernel Sources

ENet-CSharp - Reliable UDP networking library

DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier

RakNet - RakNet is a cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers.

winapps - Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

netcode.io - A protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP

Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi - Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

DsHidMini - Virtual HID Mini-user-mode-driver for Sony DualShock 3 Controllers