Online services download sites (source forge) (downloads)

The website for helping with downloading is www.sourceforge.net I am going to investigate this further by looking at what it has to offer and its advantages and disadvantages.

What is sourceforge.net?

Sourceforge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. This proves that it is very popular and used by a lot of people.

The purpose

The purpose of the site is to allow people to upload there programmes onto the site which people are then free to download. As well as this it is possible to download programmes off the site and then moderate them to suit your need by changing there codes.



The advantages

The advantages of having a free download site available are that it is free to download appropriate programs. You also know that all the programs on the site are free and you don’t have to worry about any additional charges you may be committing yourself to without knowing when you download the program. If you don’t know what software to use you can search them easily. On the homepage the categories are set out under clear headings which make it easier to break your searches down. It also shows statistics about the most popular downloaded programs and the most active programs.

The disadvantages

If you don’t know what categories to look under it is difficult to find the appropriate programs you are looking for. It’s got to be online which can be expensive. If you only have a small modem on your computer you can be ages downloading large files