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The new Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) is out. I used the built-in upgrade facilities to get the new release. After 2-3 failed attempts to get the full upgrade started, I finally got the pleasure of watching the download progress bar telling me that I had some 3 hours to wait. After downloading all the new [...]

I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core (from 1 to 5) but decided [...]

I just got in an hour or so ago after a week spent over in Ireland. As I mentioned the other day, I was due to do a bit of presales work with a public sector client, and I took the opportunity to spend the weekend in Belfast with Janet and the kids and the [...]

Spotted via Duncan Lamb‘s site: the "Community Virtual Machines" page on the VMWare website, where you can download prebuilt virtual machines for use with VMWare and the new (free) VMWare Player, including: Debian Sarge 3.1 Fedora Core 4 Fedora Core 5 Test 1 FreeBSD 6.0 KDE on SuSE OSS 10.0 Kubuntu (KDE on Ubuntu) Of [...]

Installation Guide: Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86: "This is the first in a series of guides that provide all the steps for installing the major components of Oracle 10g software on Linux. All three of the certified English-language distributions of Linux are covered in detail (Asianux is not covered), and the articles assume that [...]