A thing that always annoys me about installing Java is that it doesn’t automatically set up the JAVA_HOME environment variable after installation. I guess this is to avoid having problems when you have multiple virtual machines installed. Anyway, I use Ubuntu Linux to host the majority of my Java Application Server. It is easy install [...]

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The past ten years I’ve been working comfortably with various distributions of Linux (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Gentoo, Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, Suse) and I have really enjoyed what they have to offer. During the four years where I was self-employed all my machines were running one or the other distribution of Linux (My favourite to this day [...]

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