Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

November 2003

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

Size: 635,613,216 bytes

Clam AntiVirus - v0.65. GNU General Public License source code by the ClamAV Team and packages for Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat Linux. ClamAV is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date.

FlyWay - v0.3.2. Free GNU General Public License Python code by Doug Bell. FlyWay is a navigational route planner for pilots. It allows the user to find and select waypoints (airports, navigational aids, and fixes), then calculates distances, courses, wind corrections, and times. Information about the waypoints is provided (including frequencies, elevation, fuel availability, and runway descriptions). The route data is also used to fill in an editable FAA Flight Plan form. FlyWay has an X11 GUI based on the PyQt library.

Highlight - v2.0-13. Free GNU General Public License source code and RPM package by André Simon. Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports 75 programming languages and includes 55 highlighting color themes. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

Live CD Router - v1.82. Free GNU General Public License bootable CD ISO image by WIFI.com.ar. The Linux Live-CD Router allows you to share your broadband connection and use WIFI. Features include: Share your broadband Internet connection; Supports xDSL, Cablemodem, Fixed IP, ISDN, Dial-Up and Wireless; It includes Firewall Shorewall and Masquerading (NAT); Use standard and low cost computer, networking and wifi hardware; Can replace external Access Points (APs); Does not require any installation - It is a LiveCD, your computer simply boots straight from the CD (Does not require a hard disk); Remote SSH administration; Includes DNS Cache to accelerate surfing; Includes SNMP Remote Monitoring; Linux Software compatible with Windows and Mac Networks. Requires one dedicated computer with the following minimum specifications: 486 Processor, 16 MBytes of RAM, 2X CDRom Reader, Floppy Drive, 1 or 2 ethernet cards. NO hard disk required! Optional Wifi card (can replace an external AP).

jXmas - v1.0.1. Free GNU General Public License Java code. jXmas is a Web-based Christmas gift list manager that allows family members to see each other's Christmas gift lists. It helps prevent identical items from being purchased by different people. It also has other family-oriented features. It is written as a Java servlet and connects to a MySQL database. Connection pooling is supported by the dbcp module. Requires MySQL, Apache Tomcat.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates. Security and bug fix patch files as of 12 December 2003 for Red Hat Linux 9.

Kernel Source. Stable and development series kernel source for all platforms. Stable v2.4.23 (with optional grsecurity-1.9.13 and v2.4.24-pre1 patches), and development v2.6.0-test11.