Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

June 2004

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

Cube - v2004_05_22. Free GNU General Public License source code and executable client by Wouter van Oortmerssen. Cube is a fast-paced 3D FPS featuring in-game map editing (either cooperative over the Internet or solo), smooth Internet deathmatching and team matches, single player game modes, and uncompromisingly brutal oldskool single player & multiplayer gameplay. Cube also offers beautiful graphics with dynamic lights and shadows, particles, collision detection and physics.

FreeDOS - v beta9rc5. Free GNU General Public License installation images for CD and floppy by Jim Hall et al. FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system.

Jump'n Bump - v1.50. Free GNU General Public License source code by Gürkan Sengün and older version packages for RPM-based and Slackware distributions. As a bunny, you have to jump on your opponents to make them explode. It's a true multiplayer game with single computer and network support, but an AI option is provided. Over 178 levels are available. This program is a Unix port of the old DOS game by brainchilddesign.

KDE Radio Station - v0.6. Free GNU General Public License source code by Josef Spillner. KDE Radio Station enables easy access to Internet radio stations all over the world. Multiple directories can be consulted, with some of them even allowing you to contribute your own suggestions. Beside integration into KDE, all major free media players are supported.

PwManager - v1.0pre1. Free GNU General Public License source code by Michael Buesch et al. and executable packages for Debian, Mandrake and SUSE. PwManager is a password manager. Passwords are protected using strong Blowfish encryption. It supports many features such as importing and exporting KPasman, GPasman, and plain-text files. The password-list can be encrypted with a master-password or with a key-card (a.k.a. chipcard or smartcard). KDE library 3.1 or greater is required.

System Rescue CD - v0.2.14. Free GNU General Public License bootable CD image by Francois Dupoux et al. SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable CD for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the CD, and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs).

Useful Java Application Components - v0.9.11a and v0.9.5. Free GNU Lesser General Public License compiled and Java source code by Christian Lauer. Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) is a collection of components that may be useful for your project. It provides a powerful expression interpreter, an iText-based document processing engine that generates PDF documents based on XML templates, a charting library supporting JSP custom tags, and much more.

GNU/Linux Distribution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Fedora Core 1 and SUSE Linux 9.1.

Kernel Source - kernels 2.4.26 with optional 2.4.27-pre6 and grsecurity 2.0 patches and 2.6.7 with optional grsecurity 2.0 patch.