Minor Update

It’s been slightly more than 2 weeks since I installed Ubuntu and I am happy to report that everything is well, Eclipse and all other programs feel more snappy, multiple desktops make life so much easier and a general overall increase in productivity. I also got Oracle instant client installed and working with Rails. Here are some links that will help you if you want to do the same.

1. http://ruby-oci8.rubyforge.org/en/InstallForInstantClient.html
2. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToOracle

Unfortunately you have no other choice but to set up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for oracle to work, but on the bright side you can reduce the number of entries you put into it by making symlinks to the oracle dynamic libraries in /usr/lib directory. Also found out that the case matters when you set up the TNS_ADMIN variable (lower case will not work, weird!)

That said, the only reason why I ever go to my windows partition is to use iTunes, I wonder why Apple has not released iTunes for Linux ? I also wish Google talk was available for Linux, Gaim is pretty good but I miss how talk would remember the conversation history.