There was an interesting thread on the OakTable mailing list the other day regarding the choice of Linux distros for Oracle installations. It was started by one member (the name has been withheld to protect the innocent ) who said, “I cannot imagine (but want to understand) why anyone would pick RHEL5.6 for Oracle as opposed to the [...]
VirtualBox 4.0.10 released. It’s a maintenance released with a number of bug fixes. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…
UltraEdit 2.2 has been released for Mac and Linux. There is Fedora 15 download now, which is good. It’s nice to see the continued progress of these versions. If you are a Windows user, version 17.10 is out now for you guys. Cheers Tim…
Looks like Fedora 16 might use Btrfs as the default filesystem. Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default Features/F16BtrfsDefaultFs I hope the “Oracle doesn’t understand Open Source” brigade remember where this project started. Cheers Tim…
I’ve mentioned Fedora 15 a couple of times recently: Fedora 15: First Impressions… Fedora 15: First Big Problem… A couple more things I’ve noticed along the way: Lots of the early press complained about the “reduced productivity” of the GNOME3 desktop. Having used it for a while now I can safely say it doesn’t impact [...]
Yesterday I hit a pretty major problem with Fedora 15. I did a reboot and the login screen came up fine, but when I tried to log in I got a message saying, failed to load session ‘gnome’ No options or alternatives. Just back to the login screen. ?? I started the machine up in [...]
It’s been nearly six months since I made the switch from CentOS to Fedora as my main desktop OS. The Fedora 15 final release dropped a couple of days ago and I slapped it on my main desktop PC straight away. As usual, the first impression is all about the visuals. GNOME 3 looks great. I’m [...]
I’ve recently put a couple of new articles about old subjects on the website. In both cases, the articles were initiated by forum questions, but the explanations became too painful in the format of a forum post so they graduated into articles… UDEV SCSI Rules Configuration In Oracle Linux 5 : For those of you [...]
Followers of the blog will know I’m a big fan of UltraEdit. I have a multi-platform unlimited upgrades license, so I run it on Linux, Mac and occasionally on a Windows VM. I noticed today that version 2.1.0.3 was released for Mac and Linux about a month ago. Not sure how I missed that on [...]
With the arrival of Oracle Linux 6 comes the inevitable installation articles. Oracle Linux 6 Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Oracle Linux 6 The Oracle installation on Oracle Linux 6 is certainly smoother than the recent Fedora installations have been. Even Enterprise Manager works fine with no meddling. The official 11gR2 [...]