Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

January 2004

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

Size: 702,203,106 bytes

Atari800 - v1.3.2. Free GNU General Public License source code by Petr Stehlik, Perry McFarlane, Rich Lawrence, Thomas Richter, Radek Sterba, Robert Golias, and David Firth with executable packages for Red Hat 8 and Debian. Atari800 is an emulator of Atari 400/600XL/800/800XL/130XE/5200 with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more) running on just about every operating system (Unix/Linux, Windows, DOS, TOS, MacOS, OS/2, Amiga Workbench, WinCE...).

ebayAgent - v0.9.9. Free GNU General Public License Perl code by Martial Michel and Andrew Wansink. This script exists to provide users with a way to automate last moment bidding on eBay.

Liferea - v0.4.6b. Free GNU General Public License source code by Lars Lindner and executable packages for Debian and Fedora Core 1. Liferea is a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GNOME2. It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories. Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader.

Martian Memory - v1.2. Free GNU General Public License source code and executable by DragonTech. Martian Memory is a simple memory game oriented to kids featuring the Pachi el marciano's world characters. The goal of the game is to pick up 2 identical chips from a board that contains 32. The game contains very nice visual effects, sounds and very nice music.

RSSOwl - v0.63b. Free GNU General Public License Java code by Benjamin Pasero, Christophe Dumez, Tonny Bredsgaard and John Tey. RSSOwl is a RSS (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0) newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Features: read RSS/RDF newsfeeds in a comfortable tabfolder; save newsfeeds in categories; export to PDF / HTML / OPML; view news in internal browser.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Debian 3.0r2 (Woody), Fedora Core 1, Red Hat Linux 9, and SUSE Linux 9.0.

Kernel Source - kernels 2.4.24 (with optional 2.4.25-pre7 and grsecurity patches) and 2.6.1 (with optional 2.6.2-rc1 patch).