http://gregluck.com/blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:41:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2006/01/opensuse-im-lovin-it/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2006/01/opensuse-im-lovin-it/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:25:23 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2006/01/opensuse-im-lovin-it/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2006/01/opensuse-im-lovin-it/";I have been running RedHat and then Fedora as my desktop for work since RedHat 5 in December 1997. Back then it was mostly about becoming familiar with Unix so that I could administer the various Unices I had inherited as part of a new job. Having gotten used to the power of the shell [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2006/01/opensuse-im-lovin-it/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/11/oracle-10g-express-edition-easy-installs-on-linux-at-last/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/11/oracle-10g-express-edition-easy-installs-on-linux-at-last/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:21:07 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2005/11/oracle-10g-express-edition-easy-installs-on-linux-at-last/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/11/oracle-10g-express-edition-easy-installs-on-linux-at-last/";Oracle have released Oracle 10G Express Edition. I have been using Oracle on Linux for years and it has consistently been the most painful software install. The Oracle install instructions were always unusable. Werner Puschitz (http://puschitz.com) has become famous by providing usable instructions for the various Linux flavours. So it came as a big surprise [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2005/11/oracle-10g-express-edition-easy-installs-on-linux-at-last/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2004/11/brave-new-world-the-jump-represented-by-fedora-core-3-64-bit-amd64-and-jdk1-5-0/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2004/11/brave-new-world-the-jump-represented-by-fedora-core-3-64-bit-amd64-and-jdk1-5-0/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:37:28 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/2004/11/brave-new-world-the-jump-represented-by-fedora-core-3-64-bit-amd64-and-jdk1-5-0/ dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2004/11/brave-new-world-the-jump-represented-by-fedora-core-3-64-bit-amd64-and-jdk1-5-0/";In the world of open source, it seems there are periods of inching forward punctuated by large jumps. I believe we are in the middle of one of those jumps now. In this post I argue that the combination of Fedora Core 3, AMD64, the emergence of Firefox, Java 5 64 bit makes for one [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2004/11/brave-new-world-the-jump-represented-by-fedora-core-3-64-bit-amd64-and-jdk1-5-0/feed/ 0