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… Continue reading OpenSuSE: I’m lovin’ it!
Category: Linux
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… Continue reading Oracle 10G Express Edition – Easy installs on Linux at last!
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… Continue reading Brave New World – The jump represented by Fedora Core 3 64 bit, AMD64 and JDK1.5.0