Over the weekend Oracle Linux 5.7 was released, as noted here. Upgrades follow the normal path. Do one of the following: Boot from the DVD and upgrade that way. Replace the “/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo” file with the new version here, remembering to enable the appropriate entries. Amend your existing “/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo”, adding the following new entry. [ol5_u7_base] name=Oracle [...]
Jay Weinshenker has written a couple of good posts in response to my recent post on Oracle Linux vs. RHEL. What Linux distribution should you use for Oracle virtualized on VMware Oracle versus RedHat and VMware I don’t agree 100% with his all his points, but I always think it’s good to hear different sides of [...]
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 [...]
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…
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 was just mailed a bug update and it included this text (spelling mistakes theirs, not mine). Note customer is on Linux but could not find an available 11.2 Linux database to test on. Reprocided problem on Solaris confirming that there is some generic problem here. Really? And here’s me thinking that firing up a [...]
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 [...]
Oracle Linux 6 has landed. It has been available for Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) subscribers since the 6th, but arrived for regular folk yesterday. Download the DVD here. Cheers Tim…