Links
In this section I
will be placing links to some of my favourite websites, downloads and
other interesting places.
Ubuntu is a linux based operating system that uses the Gnome desktop.
Ubuntu is basically a full operating system with lots of
tools and features included with it. The entire principle behind Ubuntu
is that it needs to be user friendly and so easy to use, install and
configure. I would recommend anyone try out one of this operating
system and have a look as they are a lot faster and more stable as are
most linux distributions than the Microsoft alternatives. If you are
hesitant to place it on your computer take a look at
Gateworld.net is the most comprehensive
Stargate encyclopaedia and fansite on the internet. It has a very large
following of members within it forums, regularly has interviews with cast
members or people that have worked on the series and has all of the most
recent and up-to-date news.
Virtual Box is an amazing piece of software and although
not strictly a Development Tool it can be used to aid development in many
different ways so I have decided to include it in this section. VirtualBox
is an open source piece of software that is very similar although in my
opinion a lot better than VMware or Microsoft's VirtualPC. Virtual Box is
basically designed to simulate or more correctly virtualises a computer
system that you can then freely install an operating system on as though
it is a completely separate computer. You may be asking yourself what this
gains you, well think about it, using this software you can test a
completely different operating systems without having to install them on
your PC as an actual operating system. This is great for testing as it
lets you make sure that your software can operate across a number of
different operating systems. It can also give you access to tools that are
only available for other operating systems without having to restart your
machine. It is also a helpful tool for testing networked software as you
can simulate several machines on a single computer in a variety of
operating systems. This gives you an easy way to do testing of all those
nasty networked apps you create without needing hundreds of machines.
Again visit the official site by clicking the link above and have a read.
I will hopefully be providing a number of pre-made VirtualBox virtual
machines that you will be able to just run up with an operation system on
them saving you the hassle of installing the operating system yourself.
Stay tuned, I'll place a link in here and in the links section to the
downloads upon there completion.
Firefox is a very powerful web
browser that is fully open source and very reliable and robust. Firefox is
designed for maximum security and compatibility. It is available for a
large number of Operating systems including Linux, Windows and MacOS. It
is a very easy browser to learn and features Tab browsing and the ability
via Plug-in's to interface with a number of different applications. An
example of a plug-in is
FireFTP(link)
which adds FTP facilities to Firefox so you don't need a separate app for
FTP transfers. Some other useful plug-in's are DownItAll which is a
Download manager for those of us that like doing a number of large
downloads. EbayNegs is also very good and is a plug-in that will search an
ebay members username for all the negative comments.
