KernelCheck is a project that is designed to easily build the latest kernel for your distribution using the instructions provided in the Master Kernel Thread. This automated process is a fork of AutoKernel by Robert Wolterman (xtacocorex), Timothy Janssen (mentok), and Kristof Verbeken (PinguinZ). KernelCheck is currently licensed under the GNU General Public License.

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
• KC is created under a modified version of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
• For a screenshot of my working environment click here.