Fedora 17 and Oracle 11gR2…
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...
View ArticleFedora 17 : My upgrade hell…
It’s been a few days since the final release of Fedora 17. I’ve been running it on VMs since the alpha release, but the day after the final release I decided to upgrade a real Fedora 16 machine. That’s...
View ArticleFedora 18 and Oracle 11gR2…
After several abortive attempts I finally got hold of Fedora 18 last night. Those mirrors are getting a real battering at the moment. The first job was to do a basic installation.Fedora 18 (F18)...
View ArticleFedora 18 : Upgrading from Fedora 17…
I’ve just got to the end of a real upgrade of a Fedora 17 server to Fedora 18. The basic process goes like this.Download the Fedora 18 ISO.Update your current Fedora 17 system by issuing the “yum...
View ArticleFedora 18 : The winner is MATE (so far)…
I’m a few days into Fedora 18 and I think I’ve come the the conclusion that the desktop that best suits *me* is MATE. The journey to this point has been a rather long and meandering one. Let’s cut it...
View ArticleFedora 19 Alpha…
For those eager beavers out there, you can now get hold of Fedora 19 Alpha from the pre-release location.The release notes can be found here. I’m keen to check out the improvements to MATE in version...
View ArticleFedora 19 : Upgrade from Fedora 18…
I finally got round to upgrading my desktop machine to Fedora 19. The experience was pretty similar to upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18.This time I had to remove FireFox, as it was holding on to...
View ArticleI must install Oracle on Fedora!
Followers of my blog and website know I play around with installations on Fedora for fun. All of my installation guides on Fedora come with a link at the top that points to this disclaimer.Do not...
View ArticleFedora 22/23 and Oracle 11gR2/12cR1
As always, installations of Oracle server products on Fedora are not a great idea, as explained here.Do not install Oracle on Fedora before reading this!I was reading some stuff about the Fedora 23...
View ArticleFedora 23 and Oracle 11gR2/12cR1
A few months ago I mentioned doing some Fedora 22 installations. At the time I did some pre-emptive installations on the Alpha release of Fedora 23 also.Now the final release of Fedora 23 is out, I’ve...
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