Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

October 2005

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

Size: 678,512,792 bytes

GpsDrive v2.0.9. Free GNU General Public License source code by Fritz Ganter and executables for Mandriva and SUSE 9.3. GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided by your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map; the map file is autoselected depending of the position and preferred scale. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running (included). The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending upon your position and can be downloaded from the Internet. All Garmin GPS receivers with a serial output should be usable, as well as other GPS receivers that support NMEA protocol. GpsDrive is written in C with use of the GTK+ graphic toolkit and runs with Linux and FreeBSD.

TORCS v1.2.4. Free GNU General Public License source code by Eric Esple, Christophe Guionneau and the TORCS Team and executables for Mandriva, Fedora Core 4 and SUSE 9.3. TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator, is a highly-portable multi-platform 3D car racing simulation. It can be used as an ordinary car racing game, as an AI racing game, and as a research platform. There are 42 different cars, 30 tracks and more than 50 opponents to race against. You can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if it's supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard, but it's not easy. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, ...), aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, ...) and much more. The gameplay allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship. Enjoy racing against your friends in the split screen mode with up to four human players. Requires hardware accelerated OpenGL.

Transcode v1.0.1. Free GNU GPL, BSD and MIT License source code by Thomas Otreich and executables for Mandriva, Fedora Core 4 and SUSE 9.3. Transcode is a suite of command line utilities for transcoding various video and audio codecs, and for converting beween different container formats. It can decode and encode many audio and video formats. Also a variety of video and audio filters are available. It is possible to import DVDs on-the-fly, or to record from Video4Linux (including V4L2 video capturing) devices.

GNU/Linux Distibution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Fedora Core 4.

Kernel Source - kernel 2.4.31 with optional 2.4.32-rc1 patch and kernel 2.6.13 with optional 2.6.13.4 (stable) and 2.6.14-rc4 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.6 patches and administration utilities are included for the 2.4.31 kernel.