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+# Kernel
+
+## General Kernel Features
+
+- Multitasking
+- Threads
+- Shared memory
+- Unix-style pipes
+- TTYs
+- Loadable kernel modules (as relocatable ELF objects)
+- ELF binary loading (with support for loading dynamic binaries through `/lib/ld.so`)
+
+## Provided by Modules
+
+- Ethernet/IPv4/TCP subsystem
+- Local packet-based IPC
+- General audio mixer
+
+### Filesystems
+
+- Ext2
+- ISO9660
+- in-memory tmpfs
+- virtual `/proc` filesystem
+
+### Device Drivers
+
+- PATA with DMA support (and ATAPI)
+- VirtualBox Guest Additions support
+
+#### Networking Chipsets
+
+- RTL8139
+- Intel PRO/1000 series
+- AMD PCNet FAST LANCE/II/III
+
+#### Audio Drivers
+
+- Intel AC'97
+- PC speaker
+
+#### Display Drivers
+
+- Preset VESA (bootloader assisted framebuffer)
+- QEMU/Bochs/VirtualBox virtual display adapter
+- VMWare virtual display adapter
+
+# Userspace
+
+## Window Management
+
+- Compositing window manager
+- Window transparency
+- Window rotation
+- Basic WM operations: Drag, resize, tiling/fullscreen, focus
+- Opactiy-based window shaping (variable threshold)
+- Window title / icon advertisement
+- Absolute and relative input devices
+- Routes keyboard and mouse events to applications
+- Basic widget support and object-oriented API in Python
+- Direct C API for window manager
+
+### Panel
+
+- Window listing
+- Alt-Tab window switching
+- Alt-F2 application launcher
+- Applications menu
+- System status widgets: Sound control, network status, clock
+- Also manages desktop wallpaper/icons