Washington Area Computer User Group

GNU/Linux CD of the Month

April 2006

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

Size: 683,378,361 bytes

Checkstyle - v4.1. Free GNU Lesser General Public License Java code by Oliver Burn. Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard. Checkstyle is highly configurable and can be made to support almost any coding standard. An example configuration file is supplied supporting the Sun Code Conventions. As well, other sample configuration files are supplied for other well known conventions.

Liquid Weather ++ - v11.1. Free GNU General Public License desktop theme. Liquid Weather ++ is a superkaramba desktop theme and desktop applet for displaying weather information and forecasts. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to read format, the latest earthquake data, monitors up to five webcams and notifies of major storms in a given area. Requires superkaramba v0.37 or later, KDE desktop, PyQT v3.13 or later, and ImageMagick.

Oolite - v1.62-5. Free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License source code and executable by Giles Williams. The game is an independent interpretation and re-creation of the classic 3D space trading and combat simulation game, Elite. Oolite is an open ended game, based around traveling from star system to star system as a lone wolf trader or bounty hunter or pirate or any role the player chooses; there is no set goal apart from perhaps to gain the coveted Elite combat rating. Whatever the player chooses, danger lurks - the Police may come to your aid, but with the size of space, they may take their time. Or if the player is less than legally clean, the Police might only be coming to finish them off. There are several missions, and the game is expandable. Requires GNUStep and SDL libraries, 3D accelerated graphic card and 1 GHz or faster processor.

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

Kernel Source - kernel 2.4.32 with optional grsecurity and 2.4.33-pre2 patches and kernel 2.6.16 with optional 2.6.16.5 (stable) and 2.6.17-rc1 (testing) patches. Grsecurity 2.1.8 patches and administration utilities are included for the 2.4.32 and 2.6.14.6 kernels.