Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

June 2003

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

Size: 433,635,328 bytes

GPC-Slots2 - v0.0.7. Free GNU General Public License Perl code by mikeeusa. A console-based simulation of slot machines including House Rules Reel Deal, Double Blue Diamond, High Roller Sevens, as well as Monte Carlo roulette, Russian Roulette and a dice game.

Ksetiwatch - v2.6.1. Free GNU General Public License source code and RPM package by Gordon Machel. Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the Seti@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. It displays the state of the Seti@home client(s) running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units and interesting signals. In addition, Ksetiwatch features a skymap that displays all work units processed, a graphical display of scientific data (gaussians, pulses, and triplets), a dock icon with detailed status information about a client, the option to start/stop the SETI@home clients, and much more.

Msetimon - v2.53. Free GNU General Public License Perl code and RPM package by Jeff Omick. This program was written to monitor SETI@home activity that may be running on a single computer or on multiple computers over a network without having to cross mount file systems. Rather than slowing down your cpu with fancy displays. Msetimon displays only the necessary facts at a glance. This is especially helpful if you are monitoring multiple computers that may be running SETI@home. The main window will give you a quick look at the progress each of your systems are making. If you wish to see more information just left click on the desired PC name or directory and a detailed work unit screen will appear. A right click will show the position of that work unit in the SkyMap. Runs on Windows/Linux/Unix. Requires Perl and Tk 8.0 support.

QCad - v1.5.4. Free GNU General Public License Red Hat 8.0 RPM package, Debian package, and source code by RibbonSoft. QCad is a simple 2D Computer Aided Design (CAD) System. You don't need to know anything about CAD systems to begin working with QCad. With QCad you can easily construct and modify drawings with ISO-texts, dimensions, hatches and many other features and save them as DXF files. DXF files can be exchanged with other CAD systems such as AutoCAD(r). Further it can import HPGL and DGN files and export EPS files. Other features include: 200 undo/redo levels; Layer support; Integrated part browser; 16 colors; 8 different line widths; 5 line styles; Drawing range to 1,000,000 x 1,000,000 units; English, Metric, atomic and astronomic units; support for 20 languages. A manual (english) and user donated part libraries are included. Requires QT 3.x libraries (included with most current Linux distributions), and a minimum of a x586-class processor with 16 MB of RAM.

seti-applet - v2.1.3. Free GNU General Public License source code and Red Hat 8.0 RPM package by Matt Herbert and Richard Kinder. A SETI@home applet for the Gnome panel that displays work units complete, CPU time, best spike, best gaussian, and progress for the current unit.

tomsrtbt - v2.0.103. Free GNU General Public License bootable Linux mini distribution by Thomas Arthur Oehser. Tomsrtbt stands for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." This is a bootable Linux distribution that fits on a floppy disk, useful for emergency rescue and recovery of damaged Linux systems, editing files, and accessing networks. Although the image can be copied to a 3.5" floppy disk, June's CD of the Month will also boot tomsrtbt directly.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates. Security and bug fix patch files as of 20 June 2003 for Mandrake Linux 9.1.

Kernel Source. Stable and development series kernel source for all platforms. Stable v2.4.21 (with optional grsecurity-1.9.10 and v2.4.22-pre1 patches), and development v2.5.72.