What's New
3-December-2008 Version 2.0 of OSWINS DVD is now online from http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso. See content from Free and Open Source Educational Software for Windows on 1.4G DVD.
30-April-2008 Version 1.7 of OSWINS DVD, OSWINS CD and OSWKIDS CD are now online from http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso. See content from Free and Open Source Educational Software for Windows DVD .
29-April-2008 Request for Comment CD has been updated with the lastest RFCs please download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso/rfc, the RFCs can viewed at http://os.cqu.edu.au/rfc.
21-February-2008 Version 1.6 of OSWINS CD and OSWKIDS CD is now available from http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso. An upgrade of MACOSX CD is also online.
20-December-2007 Prerelease copies of EDU (Educational software), ENG (Enineering and Mathematics) and IDE (Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby software development) are now available based on the ADIOS Version 8.0q http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso/adios8 to download.
28-October-2007 ADIOS Version 8.0q is a pre-release of ADIOS 8, designed to run within Windows using open source virtualization software QEMU. See http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso to download.
28-September-2007 ADIOS Version 7.3-1 was created to run ADIOS CDs within Windows using open source virtualization software QEMU with the KQEMU accelerator. This version is similar to ADIOS 7.6 except it is running an older 2.6.18.2-adios kernel. The ADIOS DVD has both kernels which can be selected from the boot menu. See http://os.cqu.edu.au/iso for a list of ISOs available.
4-September-2007 The OS School DVD is a combination of the ADIOS DVD and the OSWINS DVD. The ADIOS DVD version 7.6 now uses kernel 2.6.22.5-adios and should work on most intel PCs. The OSWINS DVD content is also available via the CDs OSWINS and OSWKIDS. Download the ISOs from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
23-June-2007 An educational compilation DVD containing free and open source software is now online at http://os.cqu.edu.au/oswinsdvd.
20-June-2007 Two guides are now available Getting started with MediaWiki and Getting started with Drupal. You can view these at http://os.cqu.edu.au/courses.
6-June-2007 Newer version of MacOSX CD released see contents at http://os.cqu.edu.au/macosx and download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
1-June-2007 Mirror of Fedora 7 DVD now available at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
27-May-2007 Mirror of RFCs updated and rfc-2007.iso rebuilt. Download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
24-May-2007 ADIOSWEBS 7.4 is the Security Enhanced Linux version of ADIOSWEB. This version comes with OpenOffice instead of Abiword and Gnumeric which results in the ISO being 400MBs in size. ADIOSDVD 7.4 was also released today and Eclipse now works on this version. Download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
22-May-2007 ADIOS 7.4 has been released with kernel 2.6.20 and with changes in the default startup. If you want the run option menu to appear select "m" on the first screen. Download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
3-May-2007 OSWINS CD version 1.2 is an update of most of the packages. Download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
30-Apr-2007 ADIOS 7.3 DVD has even more software and more software bugs have been fixed. See the ADIOS home site at http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios and download from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
12-Apr-2007 OSWKIDS CD version 1.1 was released. This CD is a compilation of free and open source Educational software for Windows at http://os.cqu.edu.au/oswkids.
22-Mar-2007 More minor improvements with the release of ADIOS 7.3 at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso. ADIOSWEB is a 300MB live CD using XFCE and ICEWM with a small set of office tools, see http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/adiosweb.html.
21-Feb-2007 ADIOS 7.2 is available at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso. Several improvements have been made to each of the CDs and the DVD.
7-Feb-2007 ADIOSDVD 7.1 is now online at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso. The DVD version has nearly 10Gbytes of files with 20% of these files containing documentation, which is searchable using swish-e via the apache webserver.
25-Jan-2007 A set of live CDs are now available. ADIOS 7.1 includes more tools and fixes, ADIOSKIDS is an educational version, ADIOSIDE is the programmers version, and ADIOSENG includes engineering and mathematical tools. For more information see the ADIOS home site at http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios. To download the ISO images visit the download page at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso.
14-Dec-2006 ADIOS 7.0 live CD based on Fedora Core 6 with virtual machines and ADIOSKIDS 1.0 an educational live CD are now online see the home site at http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios.
10-Nov-2006 Installed Fedora Core 6 on the open source web server, as a result there are new versions of the manuals, info documents and package documentation are now online.
25-Oct-2006 The Fedora Core 6 ISO images are available at http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/iso. The individual RPMS can be accessed from http://os.cqu.edu.au/pub/fedora6/core/Fedora/RPMS or via http://os.cqu.edu.au/cgi-bin/rpm.cgi.
16-Oct-2006 The Open Source Taxonomy web site has been developed using a modified version of the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). A CMS was chosen so that staff and students can contribute to the taxonomy database. The objective of this web site is to provide reviews on open source software. Located at Open Source Taxonomy site.
9-Oct-2006 Release of the Open Source software tools for Mac OS X CD. This collection of applications is similar to the Windows CD, but for Mac OS X.
List of files on the MACOSX CD,
Download the MACOSX CD
2-Oct-2006 Open Source software tools for Windows CD is a wide collection of applications such as accounting, datamining, 3D modelling, graphical calculators, office tools, content management systems, web browsers, web servers and virtual windows desktops.
List of files on the OSWINS CD,
Download the OSWINS CD
25-Sep-2006 ADIOS Linux Live CD includes virtual machines and virtual networks. The image also comes with office tools, compilers, networking diagnostics, computer forensics and multimedia software.
Documentation on the ADIOS CD,
Download the ADIOS CD
18-Sep-2006 ADIOS coLinux CD for Windows. This is a coLinux version of the ADIOS image that runs in Windows. The software creates a couple of 2Gbyte files which are the filesystem. Read the online
Documentation on the ADIOSCOL CD,
Download the ADIOSCOL CD
This page was written by Neville Richter and was last modified on 30 April 2008