Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
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 [...]
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
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 [...]
Sunday, January 29th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
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 rest of her family [...]
Friday, January 6th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
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 course there’s the standard "supported" VMs as well, including ones for
Ubuntu,
SuSE 10,
Oracle on Red [...]
Friday, September 24th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
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 inexpensive Intel x86 hardware is [...]
