Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

August 2006

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

Size: 682,078,695 bytes

DocsDiag - v030720. Copyrighted freeware Java executable by Robin Walker. DocsDiag is a utility to gather diagnostic information from any DOCSIS-compliant cable modem that has Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) access available to the end-user. It will be of primary benefit to end-users with cable modems that do not offer diagnostics via web pages. DocsDiag is a text-mode console program without any graphical user interface. It will run on any platform with Java Runtime Environment 1.1.x or later.

Ri-Li - v1.2.0. Free GNU General Public License source code by Dominique Roux-Serret and music by Maf464 with Debian and Mandrake executable packages. Ri-li is an arcade game. You drive a toy wood engine and collect all of the coaches to win. Ri-Li features 14 languages (Arabic, Breton, Chinese, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish), a colorful, animated wood engine, 40 play levels, 3 music tracks and many sound effects. Requires SDL and SDL_mixer library, included with most GNU/Linux distributions.

SeaMonkey - v1.0.4. Free Mozilla Public License source code and Linux executable by The SeaMonkey Project. Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple - all of your Internet needs in one application. The SeaMonkey Project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". This release contains important fixes for several security vulnerabilities and various stability improvements. SeaMonkey requires glibc 2.3.2, XFree86 4.3.x, GTK 2.x, glib 2.x, libstdc++-3.3. Hardware requirements: Intel Pentium class processor (233 MHz or faster recommended); 64 MB of RAM; 100 MB of free hard disk space (significantly less space is required if you reduce the cache size).

TuxMathScrabble - v3.0.1. Free GNU General Public License Python code by Charles B. Cosse of Asymptopia Software. TuxMathScrabble is a math version of the popular board game for education. The game challenges young people to construct compound equations and consider multiple abstract possibilities. There are four skill levels for practice, from basic addition and subtraction through multiplication and division. Requires Python, PyGame, wxPython, SDL libraries (most or all included with GNU/Linux distributions).

GNU/Linux Distibution Updates - Security and bug fix monthly updates for Fedora Core 5.

Kernel Source - kernel 2.4.33 with optional grsecurity and 2.4.34-pre1 patches and kernel 2.6.17 with optional 2.6.17.9 (stable) and 2.6.18-rc4 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.9 patches and administration utilities are included for the 2.4.33 and 2.6.17.8 kernels.