Free car from software for linux

CarWorld is a small driving simulator/demo I use to test various things of interest. It was mostly developed when I was a student. Car World is released with the full source code under the GNU General Public License.

The rendering

The two top pictures represent an slightly older version (v0.072) but graphically similar of CarWorld as it was presented for my project. v0.072 includes an OpenGL based renderer allowing
file input and displaying of texture mapped models with interpolated surface normals, real time projected shadows (as seen in the dino lights example).
background object
on screen command line to modify visual and simulation parameters

The mechanics

based on classical mechanics
uses standard metrics (Newtons, meters, seconds...)
there are no constraints on the environment surface
variable length time increments and variable increment number means "CarWorld time" is not dependent on frame rate.
adjustable simulation specs include: metrics, mass, moment of inertia around rotation axis, suspension pre load, compression damping, rebound damping, engine torque output, air friction, surface friction.

Cajun turns your computer into a car audio device.It can supports mp3s, CD audio, Icecast/Shoutcast, LCD/LFD display, keypad or infra-red input. Supports multiple audio streams, multiple input devices, and multiple displays (each their own size).
Main features:
- Multi-device support, including: multiple input devices and multiple output devices (displays). Both the front seats and passengers in your minivan can see whats playing on their own display. All displays are updated at the same time.
- Supports displays of varying sizes, all at the same time.
- Display content is completely customizable. Different-sized displays can display different data.
- Input and output devices may be connected and disconnected at any time. CAJUN continues to run.
- Supports keypads, infra-red remote controls, LCD/VFD displays, FM cards, CD players, MPEG audio files, Ogg/Vorbis, Shoutcast/Icecast streams, GPS devices, etc.
- Easy-to-use, documented Perl API for writing new drivers.

Car PC Development Kit is a kit for making a Linux distribution for a car PC.
Unlike most distributions which come prepackaged and ready to load, this distribution requires downloading, compiling, and post-setup before you can load it into a system.
The end result will be a modular platform for quickly putting together a small Linux system to copy onto boot media and start using.
The target platform is a mini-computer to be installed in an automobile and used either headless or with a monitor and some input device like a keyboard or remote control.
Enhancements:
- Fixes LIRC support for both CAUI and MPlayer.
- Updates the CAUI version, and updates the LIRC package to configure more buttons by default.

Car Dealer Website allows you to get your car dealership inventory on the Web. Car Dealer Website projects easy-to-use system features full searching capability by make/model, price range, and year range.
Each listing has a contact form where buyers can easily make contact from your site on a particular vehicle.
You can upload as many images as needed per listing and setup as many makes and models as needed for your dealership. It is fully template driven, and is easy to customize.
Installation:
-copy all files to your web host
-use phpmyadmin or your mysql interface to run site.sql against your database.
-chmod 777 upload/ and upload/tmp/
-open site.xml and edit the database section with your database details.
-go to admin/ and login with username of admin with a password of test.
-be sure to change the passwords for the admin and regular user.
Setup the site.xml file with your database settings as follows.
< database type="mysql" >
< server >database server address< /server >
< login >database login< /login >
< password >database password< /password >
< default >mysql database name< /default >
< /database >
Add this to your htaccess file to prevent viewing of the xml config file.
< Files ~ ".xml" >
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
< /Files >
Enhancements:
- Some of the lines of code within the library files were fixed up to improve the speed of the system.

THC-WarDrive is a tool for mapping your city for wavelan networks with a GPS device while you are driving a car or walking through the streets.
THC-WarDrive is effective and flexible, a "must-download" for all wavelan nerds.
Enhancements:
- fixed a bug with the -W option, forgot to reset a variable. result: showed always the information of the first wvlan found.
- rewrote the GPS data gathering function. old way fucked up the exact location too often and generated a too-long backlog. nearly all GPS gathering tools have this bug btw. things learned: cutn paste from tools isnt always the best new function rules. bah.
- some minor fixes and changes

RARS consists of a Robot Auto Racing Simulator.
The Robot Auto Racing Simulator (RARS) consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car.
The goal of the game is to implement such a control program in order to compete against other programmers. An official formula one season is held every year.
All RARS software and activities are free and open to the public. Currently only Windows and Unix versions are actively supported, but some old DOS and OS/2 code exists and it should be possible to get it back to work.
Enhancements:
- a human robot controlable with a joystick.
- It works on Windows/Linux in OpenGl or not. To try it,
- start Rars
- place the robot "human" in the selected drivers.
- set the poplist follow car to "human".
- Take your joystick and good luck.
- The real robots are very fast :-) The vc_start.exe file for Windows has been updated and contains the human boot too.
- Also, it contains the following bugs fixes:
- replay of movies works even when the car is not compiled.
- (Unix) Due that people did RPM distribution of rars, it happens that the Rars directory was not writable. Now, if the current directory is non-writable. The files are written in /tmp/
- (KDE) the -nd (no display) works now.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system.
There are a lot of reasons why somebody would want to install an LFS system. The question most people raise is "why go through all the hassle of manually installing a Linux system from scratch when you can just download an existing distribution?". That is a valid question which I hope to answer for you.
The most important reason for LFSs existence is teaching people how a Linux system works internally. Building an LFS system teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together, and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own taste and needs.
One of the key benefits of LFS is that you are in control over your system without having to rely on somebody elses Linux implementation. You are in the drivers seat now and are able to dictate every single thing such as the directory layout and boot script setup. You will also know exactly where, why and how programs are installed.
Another benefit of LFS is that you can create a very compact Linux system. When you install a regular distribution, you end up installing a lot of programs you probably would never use. Theyre just sitting there taking up (precious) disk space. Its not hard to get an LFS system installed under 100 MB. Does that still sound like a lot? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was aproximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution.
If we were to compare a Linux distribution with a hamburger you buy at a supermarket or fast-food restaurant, you would end up eating it without knowing precisely what it is you are eating, whereas LFS gives you the ingredients to make a hamburger. This allows you to carefully inspect it, remove unwanted ingredients, and at the same time allow you to add ingredients to enhance the flavour of your hamburger. When you are satisfied with the ingredients, you go on to the next part of putting it together. You now have the chance to make it just the way you like it: broil it, bake it, deep-fry it, barbeque it, or eat it raw.
Another analogy that we can use is that of comparing LFS with a finished house. LFS will give you the skeleton of a house, but its up to you to install plumbing, electrical outlets, kitchen, bathtub, wallpaper, etc.
Another advantage of a custom built Linux system is added security. You will compile the entire system from source, thus allowing you to audit everything, if you wish to do so, and apply all the security patches you want or need to apply. You dont have to wait for somebody else to provide a new binary package that fixes a security hole. Besides, you have no guarantee that the new package actually fixes the problem (adequately). You never truly know whether a security hole is fixed or not unless you do it yourself.
Enhancements:
- The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the x86-6.2-3 version of LFS LiveCD. This version is built using LFS 6.2 and many Beyond Linux From Scratch packages from the Subversion branch. Source packages for LFS 6.2, and the LFS book itself, are included on the live CD. The CD is also suitable as a host for building x86 and x86_64 Cross LFS systems. Other features and bugfixes: the CD supports hibernation; the CD file system can be written to; the CD contains a visually pleasing and easy-to-use window manager, XFce...