Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

November 2005

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

Size: 657,349,604 bytes

OpenComal v0.2.6. Free GNU General Public License source and executable code for Linux, MS-DOS and Win32 systems by Jos Visser. OpenComal is a highly portable Open Source implementation of the structured programming language COMAL. Apart from the interpreter (opencomal), a run-time only unit is provided (opencomalrun) that contains all the code necessary to load and execute a SAVEd OpenComal program.

Stellarium v0.7.1. Free GNU General Public License source code by Fabien Chéreau and executables for Fedora Core 4 and Debian Linux (v0.6.2). Stellarium is an Open Source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. It renders realistic views of the skies and surrounding terrain in real-time using OpenGL including shooting stars, fog and atmospheric effects such as star twinkle, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages. Stellarium displays over 120,000 cataloged stars, planets with major satellites, 88 constellations with names, artwork and asterisms, and images of over 70 nebulas. An accelerated 3D graphic card is required.

WifiScanner v1.0.1. Free GNU General Public License source code by Jerome Poggi. WifiScanner is an analyzer and detector of 802.11b stations and access points. It can listen alternatively on all of the 14 channels, write packet information in real time, can search access points and associated client stations, and can generate a graphic of the architecture using GraphViz. All network traffic can be saved in the libpcap format for post analysis. It works under Linux with all WiFi cards. An Intrusion Detection System is integrated to detect anomalies like MAC usurpation.

WP Clipart v1.1. Free public domain clip art collection by Paul Sherman. WP Clipart is an attempt to make a useful clipart package of public domain images for use in word processors. It contains nearly 5,000 pieces of non-transparent PNG clip art. It has been optimized for use in all word processors (scaled down, midtones expanded for inkjet print quality, etc.). It is suitable for documents as well as web graphics, but also has business (credit cards, promo graphics) and educational uses (pictures of all US presidents, all country flags, all US states, sign language alphabet). An image viewer is included.

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

Kernel Source - kernel 2.4.32 with optional grsecurity patch and kernel 2.6.14 with optional 2.6.14.2 (stable) and 2.6.15-rc1 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.7 patches and administration utilities are included for the 2.4.32 and 2.6.14.2 kernels.