Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

April 2003

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

Size: 678,895,616 bytes

GnuCash - v1.8.2. Free GNU General Public License source code, and executable package for Red Hat Linux 8.0. GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.

GRASS - v5.0. Free GNU General Public License source code and binary executable. The GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) Geographical Information System (GIS) is an open source, free software GIS with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through a graphical user interface and shell in the X Window System. GRASS allows users to analyze, store, update, model, and display data quickly and easily. Although it was originally developed for use in land planning, its capabilities have been expanded and used in the fields of engineering, hydrology, geology, physics, statistics, remote sensing, business, and many others. GRASS is developed by a worldwide network of developers who continue to release new GRASS versions regularly. A manual and sample data is included.

Trackballs - v.0.9.0. Free GNU General Public License source code and binary executable by Mathias Broxvall. Trackballs is a game for Linux in which you steer a marble ball through tracks of varying difficulty. The game is loosely based on Marble Madness and features 3D graphics, an integrated level editor and high quality sound effects and background music. Trackballs requires OpenGL hardware acceleration and a reasonably spec'd PC. Trackballs has been tested on: Duron 700 and XP1800+ CPUs; NVidia TNT and Geforce 2 video cards running NVidia's drivers (3123 & 4191); Red Hat Linux, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 & "Sid", SuSE 8.1 and Mandrake Linux; kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4.20.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates. Security and bug fix patch files as of 17 April 2003 for Mandrake Linux 9.0.

Kernel Source. Stable and development series kernel source for all platforms. Stable v2.4.20 (with optional grsecurity-1.9.9f and v2.4.21-pre7 patches), and development v2.5.67.