Skip to main content

KernelCheck: kernel compiling process as easy as the click of a button

Image
By
KernelCheck is a graphical user interface program designed to make the kernel-compiling process as easy as the click of a button. A kernel is the base of any operating system – in our case, the Linux operating system. KernelCheck will fetch the latest information from http://www.kernel.org, which hosts the source packages for the Linux kernel, and ask the user which one they would like to compile into a .deb package (with the option of installing the kernel after the compilation). This automated process is a fork of AutoKernel by Robert Wolterman (xtacocorex), Timothy Janssen (mentok), and Kristof Verbeken (PingunZ). KernelCheck is currently licensed under the GNU Public License version 3.

Current Features

  • Ability to download, compile and install latest kernel automatically
  • Ability to compare latest kernel information with your current running kernel
  • GUI designed with Glade provides easy accessibility for any user

Supported Platforms

At the moment, KernelCheck is only supported on Debian-Based platforms. Some of these include Debian, Ubuntu (or any derivatives), Mint, etc. RPM and Slackware based are planned to be supported in the future.

Goals

  • To provide every Linux user with a tool to help automate the complicated kernel-building process
  • Provide an easy-to-use, newbie friendly tool to ease the burden of compiling kernels
  • Provide an open-source program that all people can edit to their needs
  • Build a tool based on the AutoKernel idea by PinguinZ, but with more functionality
  • Help the Linux community on its journey to defeat the evil Microsoft empire
  • Features waiting to be integrated
  • Automatically optimize the kernel to the user's needs
  • Decrease user-interactivity for a smoother and easier building process

Ground rules

  • KernelCheck is GPL, and will always be GPL, unless GPL becomes illegal, in which case it will be LGPL
  • Forever open-source
  • This program will be created using only Python, PyGTK, Glade, and BASH Shell

Download it from here

After installing KernelCheck, you will find it under Applications > System Tools > KernelCheck. You can also open KernelCheck pening a terminal and typing in:
 
sudo kernelcheck



Home page of kernelcheck: http://kcheck.sourceforge.net/
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to install Skype on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By
The two methods  below doesn't work now. Please see http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/how-to-download-and-install-skype-for_3060.html for a successfull installation of skype on ubuntu.   I have provided two methods. Please do comment which one is successful. Follow these steps to install skype in ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit).         First add:             deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free         to your /etc/apt/source.list Now open a terminal and type: $ sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Then do an update: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring $ sudo apt-get -q update And finally install Skype. $ sudo apt-get install skype Ready ... now start skype with $ skype OR Download the setup 32 -bit 64 -bit ...
37 comments
Read more

gtalx: Howto Gtalk in ubuntu ( google talk )

By
Did you fail to use " gtalk in ubuntu " ... Now you can chat and talk to your gmail buddies in ubuntu... 1. check for gtk2.0 and qt4 $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev $ sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev $ sudo apt-get install libexpat-dev libraw1394-dev libvorbis-dev $ sudo apt-get install libgsm1-dev  libspeexdsp-dev libmediastreamer0-dev libortp-dev 2. Remove 'pulse audio sound server' Open synaptic package manager and remove pulse audio 3. "Download gtalx" from here Dowload it here 4. Extract the file.... $ tar -zxvf 0.0.4.tar.gz 5. Get into the directory.... $ cd 0.0.4 and then... $ sudo chmod u+x make $ ./make $ sudo ./make install 6. Enjoy..... Please comment about your installation(whether it was a success or not....) Take gtalx from Applications > Internet > gtalx Enter your gmail login information..and click connect... ...
35 comments
Read more

wbar: a quick luanch bar( similar to avant and cairo dock)

By
wbar is a quick-launch bar (not a dock) that has an appearance similar to Avant Window Manager and Cairo Dock. It is GTK (Gnome) based but can work in all desktop environments. It does not require a compositing manager to be installed and is therefore quicker and more suitable for low-end hardware systems. It is the default in the Google gOS desktop and is available as a .deb package from Google. Download and install (from the command-line Terminal): wget http://wbar.googlecode.com/files/wbar_1.3.3_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i wbar_1.3.3_i386.deb Start wbar with custom start options (e.g. by pressing alt+F2). Here is an example: wbar -isize 48 -j 1 -p bottom -balfa 40 -bpress -nanim 3 -z 2.5 -above-desk Here is another example: wbar -above-desk -pos bottom -isize 60 -nanim 1 -bpress -jumpf 0.0 -zoomf 1.5 For a full list of command-line startup options, see: wbar --help Tip: If you want the "wave" effect just increase the -nanim value. I like the icons to just pop up so I do...
4 comments
Read more