Much of the software you will use on a day-to-day basis is a product of the open-source movement. This movement is largely internet based -- so if you want to find out more about a project, have a look on the web.
UCC has an extensive collection of reference manuals. In particular the Sun manuals along the wall next to the door are really good. If the relevant man page doesn't have enough information these might be able to help.
Table 5 details some of the most useful websites for people interested in Unix operating systems and computing in general.
If you have any questions after reading this Guide, don't hesitate to ask someone. Come up to the clubroom. Nobody bites and we're all more than willing to help. You could also browse the UCC web page (see table 5) which contains a lot of information.
Have a great time at Uni, and the UCC looks forward to seeing you!
| http://www.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/ | The UCC homepage! Information is posted here from time to time, including committee minutes, policies and cool CGI-scripts. |
| http://www.gnu.org/ | The homepage of the Free Software Foundation. These are the people that created gcc and many other utilities commonly used under Linux and other Unixes. |
| http://www.linux.com/ | This is the official Linux homepage. A very useful resource that links many more specific sites. |
| http://www.debian.org/ | The official homepage of Debian GNU/Linux. This is the flavour of Linux currently predominating within UCC. A useful site for news and updates. |
| http://www.slashdot.org/ | Slashdot describes itself as ''News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.'' It provides interesting reading if you're interested on the latest computing news. |
| http://www.freshmeat.net/ | Freshmeat is the repository for free software. This is the place to visit to look for free software, or to find out about updates. |
| http://www.google.com/ | Google is a popular WWW search engine with minimal graphics and advertising. It often returns excellent results. |
| http://www.dmoz.org/ | DMOZ is the open directory project. It is the basis for http://directory.google.com/. Web sites are divided into categories which can be browsed. This is a good starting point for learning about a new subject. |
| http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ | This is the home page for the AARNET FTP mirror site. This mirror contains a very large quantity of popular software (including operating systems, applications, scripts, texts and games). It is much faster and cheaper to download from AARNET than it is from overseas repositories. |