Posts Tagged ‘installation’
Which Java?
14Aug20
Or should that be: TL;DR Practices for installing and maintaining Java have evolved over time, which can lead to tension between teams who are set in a particular way, and other teams who see that as backward. The present state of the art is not to have Java on hosts at all, and to containerise […]
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Tags: APT, conatiners, containerisation, deb, dependencies, Docker, installation, java, OpenJDK, patching, rpm, SDKMAN, yum
“Installation is a Software Hate Crime” – Pat Kerpan, then CTO of Borland circa 2004. Today’s hate – meta installers I’ve noticed a trend for some time that when downloading an installer rather than being the 20MB or so for the actual thing I’m installing it’s just a 100KB bootstrap that then goes off and […]
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Tags: divx, Docker, installation, installer, virtual appliance
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