Nuke

A full-loaded Ubuntu-based development box

Description

Nuke is a full-loaded Ubuntu-based Virtual Appliance aimed at students & developers.

Featured applications:

GCC & G++ 3.3, 3.4 & 4.0 (C/C++ compiler)
Anjuta 1.2.4 (C/C++ Development IDE)
Gnat 3.15 (Ada compiler)
Ocaml 3.08 (OCaml interpreter and compiler)
Perl 5.8.7 (Perl interpreter)
Python 2.4.2 (Python interpreter)
Java 1.5 (Java VM & compiler)
Eclipse 3.1 with JDT (Java Development IDE)
Nedit 5.5.1 (multi-purpose text editor with syntax highlighting)
Emacs 21.4a with Tuareg module (multi-purpose text editor with OCaml interactive interpreter)
gPHPedit 0.9.50 (PHP script editor)
Glade 2.12 (Gtk user interface creator)
wxGlade 0.3.5 (wxWidget cross-platform user interface creator)
wxWidgets 2.6 (headers for cross-platform GUI integration)
Gimp 2.2.8 (image manipulation program)
Ddd 3.3.9 (graphical debugger)
Gdb 6.3 (the GNU debugger)
Loads of classic unix tools

And much more...

USAGE

Download the nuke.zip archive
Decompress the archive using for example 7-zip
Double-click on the file nuke.vmx

Some extra instructions and a small FAQ are included in the file "nuke.txt".

WHY USING NUKE?

During a computer sciences formation, there is a lot of various things a student learns. From the basics of an Unix environment to the programmation in various languages, everything needed in your formation is usually provided by schools/universities.

But when you have to work on long projects or to review some of the manipulations made, you don't always have the possibility to use your school's machines or to connect to your university server.

During such moments, you may think of a double-boot Linux install on top of your base system on your home computer, but you don't have the time to do this and may not have an internet access to download the needed tools.

That's why Nuke exists.

Using Nuke with VMWare provides you all the tools needed for your learning/development projects without any long and boring installation process. Everything comes out-of-the box. Just download it and run it.

And I know well all the needs of students because I'm a student, and some time ago I would have loved to see something like this. That's why I made this very eye-candy Ubuntu box (because when you have to pass hours behind your screen you may want to work on a nice-looking system ;-)

Enjoy it!

NUKE HISTORY

I wanted Nuke to be a very easy-to-use Linux system but with a strong and supported basis, that's why I chose the Ubuntu distribution for Nuke, because it is an user-oriented distribution with a solid Debian base and software support.

Then, I removed all the unecessary packages such as multimedia players and the OpenOffice.org suite because such software are usually installed on your home computer and you may not need a copy on you virtual development machine. This saved a lot of space which I used to install the most used compilers and development tools.
After that, I searched a lot for the "perfect theme", then I made a custom combination of themes I found on the net, and fine-tuned it with a custom version of the Clearlook Gnome theme.
I finally installed the VMWare tools, before doing a lot of testing and adding/removing packages to get the best size/features ratio.

When Nuke was ready, I wanted to share it with everyone and I hope that it will be useful to some other people, and especially students like me.

LICENSE

Nuke is based on the Ubuntu Linux distribution (http://ubuntu.com).
The system and all the included softwares are free of charge, and licensed under the GNU license. For more information, see http://gnu.org

Last updated: 06/08/2006

Operating system: Ubuntu 5.10

Applications installed:
GCC & G++ 3.3, 3.4 & 4.0 (C/C++ compiler) Gnat 3.15 (Ada compiler) Ocaml 3.08 (OCaml interpreter and compiler) Perl 5.8.7 (Perl interpreter) Python 2.4.2 (Python interpreter) Nedit 5.5.1 (Multi-purpose text editor with syntax highlighting) Java 1.5 (Java VM & compiler) gPHPedit 0.9.50 (PHP script editor) Emacs 21.4a with Tuareg module (Multi-purpose text editor with OCaml interactive interpreter) Firefox 1.08 with Flash extension (internet browser) Gimp 2.2.8 (image manipulation program) Glade 2.12 (Gtk user interface creator) Procesim 1.1 (Simple processor simulator with its micro assembler) Anjuta 1.2.4 (C/C++ Development IDE) wxGlade 0.3.5 (wxWidget cross-platform user interface creator) wxWidgets 2.6 (headers for cross-platform GUI integration) Eclipse 3.1 with JDT (Java Development IDE) Ncurses 5.4(headers and for terminal-based user interface creation) Ddd 3.3.9 (graphical debugger) Gdb 6.3 (the GNU debugger) And loads of classic unix tools...

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 517 MB
Torrent available: Yes
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Primary account
Username: nuke
Password: nuke

Submitted by: Noda

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