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This seems to be old and possibly abandoned, given that:

- The website is served using a self signed cert for a different domain created in 2011 (!)

- The last download is from March 2013 for linux 3.x

- The last commit to the git repo was in 2016

- The last post on the mailing list is an unanswered question from 2015

I would be interested to hear if anybody on HN knows of a similar project that is being maintained.

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The project seems still alive and active, at least according to its recent RFC'ing from LKML [0].

For some more information, Phoronix also recently wrote an article [1] about it, also the GitHub repo [2] seems to be somewhat active (last commit was 06-02-2020).

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1588127445.git.javier.mal...

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Popcorn-...

[2] https://github.com/ssrg-vt/popcorn-kernel

Ah, you're right, it does appear to be still alive. If anyone from the popcorn linux team sees this, please consider updating the outdated portions of your website (and getting an HTTPS certificate). Had I never read this comment I would have gone on unaware that the project was not dead.

The homepage has a "News" section front and center with articles created as recently as March of this year.

The homepage (the submission URL as I write, but perhaps you saw something different?) leads with News:

  - March 2020 ...
  - [x3]
  - [big font] October 2019 ...

I think it's kicking.

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