Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

April 2005

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

Size: 659,152,972 bytes

LinkChecker - v2.8. Free GNU General Public License source code and executable RPM package by Bastian Kleineidam. With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents and web sites for broken links. It features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in DOT, GML, or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.

Mozilla - v1.7.7. Free Mozilla Public License source code and executable by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla is an integrated suite of Internet applications, including a full-featured web browser, web page editor, Internet Relay Chat client, and e-mail/newsgroup client. This release fixes recently discovered security vulnerabilities as well as many bugs. Mozilla requires at least a Pentium 233 Mhz processor, 64 MB RAM, and Linux kernel 2.2.14 or later with the following libraries or packages: glibc 2.2.4 or higher; gtk+ 1.2.0 (1.2.5 or greater preferred); XFree86 3.3.6 or higher, or any xorg; libstdc++5 (newer distros may include libstdc++6 instead, which is not backward compatible). Mozilla has been tested with Red Hat 7.0 and later.

Scramble - v0.9.5. Free GNU General Public License source code by Shifty Games and executable package for Mandrake 9.2 and SUSE 9.0. Scramble is an anagram based puzzle game. You are given 6 letters. From these 6 letters you are to create as many words as you can before the time runs out. You must find at least 40% of all the words or the largest word in the set in order to continue to the next level. Requires SDL (included in most distributions).

GNU/Linux Distibution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Fedora Core 3.

Kernel Source - kernels 2.4.30 and 2.6.11 with optional 2.6.11.7 (stable) and 2.6.12-rc2 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.5 patches and administration utilities are included for 2.4.30 and 2.6.11.7 kernels, respectively.