The new version of KitFreeMiNT is arriving a little later than expected. Initially planned for January, it's only being released on February 1st, 2026.
The program is quite full, and the holiday season also contributed to this delay.
New
- "Emulation" of the complete NetBSD base system, with either recompiled commands or scripts that return an error code.
- KFM Builder (which will be distributed separately) allows you to generate a complete archive fairly correctly by automatically downloading the necessary components (archives, scripts, etc.).
- All binary packages that could be compiled are included.
- The decompressed pkgsrc archive is also included.
- The xmake source code is included as an example.
Bug fixes
- The MiNTlib header files are included.
- diffutils is from SpareMiNT because the latest available version doesn't work.
- The digest package in a.out format prevented any package building. It has been rebuilt in ELF format.
Packages
- pkgsrc: 58 packages
- pkgsrc-wip: 1 package
- pkgsrc-gem: 10 packages
- Total: 69 packages
Known bugs
- The qed editor is not available (non-functional package)
- pkgsrc is not yet stable (realpath paths are not POSIX compliant and the destination path is configured to /ram to avoid access rights errors)
How does it work?
- Download the archive
- Extract the archive
- Run ./runme.sh
- On the TeraDesk desktop, open the system menu
- Click on TosWIn2
- In the File menu, click on Start shell
- In the shell, type: cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/xmake
- Type bmake package
- The package is built (available in /usr/pkgsrc/packages)!
