Well, not quite, but here are a few blogs I’ve noticed over the last week or so.
Probably my favourite source of new blogs is comments left on this blog. As well as being easy 😉 it almost ensures that the authors have good taste :-> Paul Vallee had mentioned to me that he hoped to start a Pythian group blog, based on postings by the many clever people who work at Pythian. I have a feeling this one is going to be particularly useful technically and readable.
Next up is one that I can’t believe I missed. It’s been said (accurately) that a blog is just a diary, really. When I was fed-up earlier in the week, I was looking through some old blogs from the Hotsos Symposium period and it brought back some happy memories. One of the comments was from Scott Schwab, but I didn’t notice that he has a blog, too. This one looks most interesting if you’re interested in development issues.
At this point I’d like to implore Anjo Kolk to start posting again. Normally I wouldn’t link to a blog that’s never updated, but I live in hope 😉
Oh, and welcome back, Mogens (okay it was only a month or two). You were missed. Oracle on Windows versus Linux? An old but still interesting debate. There are other blogs on this subject here and here.
Finally, I noticed that Andy Campbell seems to have had more success with Fedora Core 5 than he’s supposed to. Interesting. I thought there might have been some comments on that blog by now, but maybe nobody’s noticed it?
The good thing about a blog like this is it requires very little post-viral effort (actually, I’m not so sure about the ‘post’ bit – I’m still having mid-day naps and waking up feeling weak). This weekend I have a few more substantial efforts I hope to manage. Watch this space.
What are you trying to say Doug? 🙂
Still no luck with Oracle on FC5 for me, but others have added comments to the article to say it works fine for them. It’s a funny old world…
Cheers
Tim…
Not at all! I didn’t mean it that way ;-), but it makes the criticism you faced even more questionable if there are ways to get it to work. i.e. It’s not a ‘this could never work – hang that man!’ situation.
Then again, there do seem to be a number of criticisms around FC5, not just this one.
Personally I have no idea whatsoever and haven’t tried it, but Andy’s blog raises an interesting question. I hadn’t seen the comments on your article, so I assumed everyone was still under the impression it won’t work.
Cheers
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I’m just messin’ with you Doug. Hope I didn’t scare the animals 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Hi,
Just out of interest, here is some chat about the problems with getting 10g working on FC5 from the guys on the Fedora Forum. I believe Andy may have used the first approach mentioned here (i.e. copying over his FC4 install to FC5), but there again he is a bit of a Linux guru anyway:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=99380&highlight=10g
Jari.
Jari,
Thanks, mate. That’s really useful information.
Shrek,
How the hell did I forget you? I look at so many blogs and I remember glancing at yours ages ago (The Lex blog, I think) and then moved on to something else (work probably).
Anyway, I think you deserve your own blog – another ‘watch this space’ promise.
Cheers,
Doug
The other guy has success with FC5 because he upgraded from FC4 to FC5, not installed afresh (as I read it, anyway).
The lack of thread support is an issue for linking/compiling Oracle software. I don’t believe it’s an issue for running already-compiled stuff. So if his Oracle installation was working before the upgrade, it should work afterwards. But he won’t be able to do a fresh installation of Oracle.i