VirtualBox 4.1.18 has been released. It’s a maintenance release and the downloads and changelogs are in the normal places. It’s been about 2 years since I switched across to VirtualBox (when the shared virtual disks feature was introduced). In that time there have been loads of updates to the product. In the same time frame, [...]
Fedora 17 was released yesterday. I mentioned in a previous post I had run through the installation of Oracle 11gR2 on Fedora 17 alpha. With the arrival of the final Fedora 17 release I ran through the articles again last night to make sure everything was OK. You can see the finished versions here: Fedora 17 [...]
I’ve been using the beta versions of UltraEdit 3.1 for Mac and Linux for a while, but I only noticed today the production version has been released. I normally get email updates, so I figure this one must have got directed to spam by accident. Anyway, I’m now rockin’ the latest version on both platforms. [...]
Following on from my post on AntiVirus Software and Apple Macs, I decided to add antivirus to my desktop machines also. I chose ClamAV because it is part of the Fedora repository. I wrote a quick note about installing ClamAV on Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Oracle Linux, CentOS etc.). Linux Antivirus (clamav, freshclam, clamscan, clamtk) Not [...]
I have been playing around with Fedora 17 beta in preparation for my server upgrades when it is released at the end of the month. While I was at it, I did my typical articles for Fedora. Fedora 17 (F17) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 17 (F17) I’ll run through [...]
I’ve put the last two articles in the RHSCA certification series live. Linux Firewall (iptables, system-config-firewall) Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) These took a little bit of time because I was in denial (and ill for a couple of weeks). When I put the previous batch of articles live, I mentioned these objectives were the ones I [...]