Software to download

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VM Software
VirtualBox (Just if you want to create a VM)
-- https://www.virtualbox.org/

OS
Ubuntu or Fedora
-- http://www.ubuntu.com
-- http://fedoraproject.org/

IDE
Sublime Text or Komodo Edit
-- http://www.sublimetext.com/
-- http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit

Browsers
Firefox or Chrome
-- www.firefox.com
-- www.google.com/chrome

Add-on
Firebug (only for Firefox)
-- http://getfirebug.com/


Windows users

Cygwin
-- http://www.cygwin.com/

-- Putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/