Driver Control Center
General Information
An all in one lightweight application that updates drivers, and
installs new drivers for the hardware currently in the system
Technical Overview
Driver Control Center will update existing drivers, check for drivers
for hardware that doesn't currently have a driver installed and
hardware that just has a default driver installed (for example VESA for
graphics drivers) and download these missing drivers. The drivers will
be downloaded from existing on-line repository's like Sourceforge and
for Microsoft Windows Microsoft Update. The hardware present and the
drivers currently installed will be found using third party tools, such
as CPU-Z for the processor, and operating system - based tools such as
Device Manager on Microsoft Windows. Driver Control Center will be able
to run from the terminal/command line, allowing from batch scripts and
cron jobs.
Mindmap
Download
Please go to
sourceforge.net/projects/driverccto
download. Currently only the initial design idea images and initial
design ideas Java source code can be downloaded, but a public
alpha is currently scheduled for March 5th 2009, a beta for April 20th
2009, a release candidate for May 20th 2009 and a final release of
version 1.0 on June 20th 2009. Of course, all these dates would be much
closer if I had any help coding, designing etc, so read the next
section. This roadmap can be publicly found on 30boxes at
http://30boxes.com/widget/7748213/HarryRickards/d129259eba261facf7fcf2fa3bdfb131/0/, or if you are a member of the Driver Control Center project on BaseCamp (see next section), it is avaliable on there.
Joining
Please join the project at the sourceforge project page (
sourceforge.net/projects/drivercc).
Once you have joined at sourceforge, please optionally email me at
harry@l33tmyst.net so I can add you as a user to the BaseCamp site.
Please also say in that email whether you want to be designer,
debugger, coder etc. Please also make sure to omplete the UI survery at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oG0_2b7nGkX7uXW4C_2bllk7dg_3d_3d
Sourceforge
Many thanks to Sourceforge for the project hosting and distribution