netKSB

This is a small, free and potentially useful tool for building NetBSD kernels and complete releases from source. It doesn't change the way NetBSD is compiled today (using make or build.sh), but offers an alternative interface to it. This project is "standing on the shoulders of giants".

The goals are to simplify configuration and building of NetBSD by providing a simple user interface for creating kernel configuration files (both manually and auto generated), configure and start builds via build.sh and provide easy access to system documentation. The first version offers an interface based on curses, but later on an interface based on libraries for the X Window System (like Gtk or Qt) will also be implemented. netKSB is in an initial state of development, meaning that many features are still missing and it's a bit rough around the edges.

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2006-07-13 Summer

Yes, summer has been here for a while, but I haven't had time to enjoy it. I'm currently up to my neck in work, the only chance for me to see sunlight would be if the days had more hours or the weeks had more days. If you're wondering about the progress I will (when time allows) finish up some remaining issues I have and release a new version. I guess that it won't be very useful until version 0.3 is released.

2006-05-04 Work, work, work

Things are moving along, lots of changes (bug fixes and new features) have been made since the first peek-release. I'm still working on build.sh and make configuration. I've also added support for saving build output to a file (options are none, errors and all). I've removed the template window because it isn't used for anything useful at the moment, the script is still part of the distribution for evaluation. Stay tuned for the 0.1.3 release.

2006-04-27 Another try

Ok, I've updated the tarball, you find it here.

2006-04-27 Last minute changes introduced a bug

I made some last minute changes before the first release that breaks building of kernels. I will upload a new version today with some additional fixes. I will probably skip last minute changes in the future and make sure things work as it should (lesson learned). Sorry...

2006-04-24 A pre-alpha release is available

I've uploaded a compressed archive of netKSB which you find here.