Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

February 2006

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

Size: 694,848,032 bytes

Advanced Strategic Command - v1.16.3. Free GNU General Public License source code and executables for Mandriva and SUSE by Martin Bickel. ASC is a free, turn-based strategy game. It is designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte. A tutorial campaign explains the functionality of ASC and shows most features. Although primarily a multi-player game, ASC includes a single playable campaign against a computer opponent.

crip - v3.7 and v1.0. Free GNU General Public License Perl script by Charlton Harrison. crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis files (or MP3 files for crip 1.X) under Unix/Linux. It is well-suited for someone seeking to make a lot of Ogg/MP3 files from CDs and have them properly tagged and professional-quality with a minimum of hassle.

dvdauthor - v0.6.11. Free GNU General Public License source code by Scott Smith and executables for Mandriva. dvdauthor is a simple set of tools to help with authoring a DVD.

dvd-slideshow - v0.7.3. Free GNU General Public License shell scripts by Scott Dylewski. dvd-slideshow makes a DVD-compatible slideshow video with menus from a batch of pictures. It consists of a set of scripts: dvd-slideshow reads a text file list of all the pictures you want in one slideshow and creates a DVD-compatible MPEG movie with your audio tracks and specified timing. It supports effects such as fades, crops, and the Ken Burns effect (slowly zooming and panning at the same time). dvd-menu makes a top-level DVD menu with the output files from dvd-slideshow. dir2slideshow makes a dvd-slideshow input file from a directory of pictures. gallery2slideshow makes the input file from your Gallery album. jigl2slideshow makes the input file from your jigl album. The output is fed through dvdauthor to create DVDs.

gambas - v1.0.14 (source) and v1.0.13 (packages). Free GNU General Public License source code and executables for Debian, Fedora Core, Mandriva and SUSE by Benoît Minisini. This project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, similar to (but not compatible with) Microsoft's Visual Basic(tm). Gambas includes a compiler, an interpreter, an archiver, a graphical user interface component and a development environment.

Slideshow Creator - v0.5. Free GNU General Public License source code and Debian, Mandriva and SUSE executables by Marco Colnaghi. Slcreator is a graphic interface to dvd-slideshow, making creation of DVD slideshows quicker and easier. Requires the gambas runtime (above).

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

Kernel Source - kernel 2.4.32 with optional grsecurity and 2.4.33-pre1 patches and kernel 2.6.15 with optional 2.6.15.4 (stable) and 2.6.16-rc2 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.8 patches and administration utilities are included for the 2.4.32 and 2.6.14.6 kernels.