Download
The latest full version of GiantDisc
See also new features in the change log.- Download the GiantDisc Core package at SourceForge.
Other optional packages:
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Palm Client Sourcecode (for developers):
You can access to the source code in the subversion repository at SourceForge
http://giantdisc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/giantdisc/
Please subscribe as a developer if you want to submit your modifications and contributions. - the newest, unstable beta-release
- 3rd party contributions
- POV-Ray sourcecode of animated 3D GD logo
How can you support this project?
- Post suggestions and bug reports in the Support discussion forum
- Answer questions of other GD users in the discussion forum
- Send by email a picture and a description of your GiantDisc system, and it will be published in the Showcase section.
- contribute your code or new clients. More information on that in the developers corner.
Legal Stuff
- GiantDisc, including the Palm client and the Perl server scripts are provided freely as Open Source software, under the terms of the Gnu Public License. Basically this means GiantDisc is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify GiantDisc provided that you agree: to provide the source to others, not to modify or remove the original license, and to apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license (GPL) for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.
- The usual legal notices apply like "We cannot be made liable to damages caused by the GiantDisc software. Use it at your own risk."
Development Roadmap
I have started developing GiantDisc in December 1998. The main goal was to create a jukebox that fits my personal needs. A secondary goal is to contribute to the open source community (I'm using a lot of open source software myself), and to get the experience how it feels from the inside of an open source project.
GiantDisc is now quite much there, where I wanted to have it. Currently, I have 3 GD systems (a mobile, a production and a development system) and they are all very intensively used. I'm satisfied with the result, especially with respect to retrieve options, usability and management functions. However, I'm not yet entirely happy with stability.
In the future I will:
- improve stability. The next versions o GD will mainly be bugfix releases
- make communication more robust (wired and wireless)
- port GD to new Palm models and support new features like high resolution screens
- maintain GD on newer versions of Linux, Perl, mysql, PHP, ALSA
- improve integration with other multimedia systems like Movix
In the future I will not:
- develop many new features (I'm happy with GD as it is)
- support more audio formats (mp3, ogg and flac cover a sufficiently wide range of applications) ... unless it doesn't cause me a lot of work
- support new media types like video
- translate GD or the manual to other languages
- port GD to WinCE/WinXP