Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

April 2004

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

Size: 686,615,619 bytes

GIMP - v2.0.1. Free GNU General Public License source code by The GIMP Team and executable packages for Fedora Core, Debian, and SUSE. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a powerful image creation and editing application for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP supports layers, plug-ins and several script interfaces (Perl, Python, C), with many functions built-in for sophisticated effects such as applying textured surfaces to text and animating graphics. GIMP also includes context sensitive help.

OpenOffice.org - v1.1.1.Free GNU General Public License source code by The OpenOffice.org Project and executable. OpenOffice.org is an office application suite including an integrated word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and drawing package. It also includes tools for managing simple databases and interfacing with third-party database management systems. You can publish your work in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf) format - without needing any additional software. OpenOffice.org supports complex text layout (CTL) languages (such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, and Hebrew) and vertical writing languages. Import and export filters are available for a wide variety of document file formats, including Microsoft Office.

libwpd - v0.7.1. Free GNU General Public License source code by William Lachance and Marc Maurer and executable packages for Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1, and SUSE 9. libwpd is a library for reading Corel WordPerfect formatted document files into other applications. Utilities are included to convert WordPerfect documents to raw (plain text with embedded codes spelled out), plain text (no embedded codes) and HTML. Also included is WriterPerfect, a WordPerfect import filter for OpenOffice.org.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Fedora Core 1, and Red Hat Linux 9.

Kernel Source - kernels 2.4.26 with optional grsecurity 1.9.14 patches and 2.6.5 with optional 2.6.6-rc1 and grsecurity 2.0 patches.