Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

January 2003

All executable programs are for Intel x86 Linux distributions unless stated otherwise.

Size: 336,467,968 bytes

Document Collection - Free documentation for various platforms. An updated collection of Linux HOWTO, mini-HOWTO, and guide documents in HTML and PDF format, browsable on the CD-ROM. HOWTOs are user-maintained documents that cover nearly every detail of configuring and using Linux. Guides provide more in-depth references about specific topics. An essential reference source for newbies and gurus alike.

Snort - v1.9.0. Free GNU General Public License source code and RPM packages. Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. Snort has three primary uses. It can be used as a straight packet sniffer like tcpdump(1), a packet logger (useful for network traffic debugging, etc), or as a full blown network intrusion detection system.

Virtual Jay Peak - v1.1a. Free executable by Slingshot Game Technology. Virtual Jay Peak is a 3D simulation of snowboarding at the Jay Peak resort in Vermont. The terrain is based on geological survey data of the mountain and surrounding area, with the addition of signature trails and buildings. The software is based on the extreme backcountry snowboarding game Soul Ride. Requires OpenGL hardware video acceleration.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates. Security and bug fix updates as of 18 January 2003 for Debian Linux 3.0.

Kernel Source. Stable and development series kernel source for all platforms. Stable v2.4.20 (with optional grsecurity-1.9.8 and v2.4.21-pre3 patches), and development v2.5.59. Also included is Eric S. Raymond's Configuration Menu Language 2 patch v2.3.0 for kernels.