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Hi Everyone I am considering learning Java. There have been well publicized Java security incidents recently that make me not want to learn it. However it's in Centos and I trust Centos, are the concerns in the media blown out of proportion ? -Patrick

I've had nothing but trouble with BSD/Linux over the past year or so. I've been on Centos 6.4 for about a half day now and I am loving it. I am just wondering though, how does a 7 year support cycle work? I see that there is libreoffice which is kinda new. Is this because open office is under oracle's influence? I am on gnome 2 right now, will I wake up one day in the next 7 years

I can't seem to check off the centos media repo from within the add/remove application. Is there a way to do this? I tried to invoke gpk-application from root but it didn't work. Thanks-Patrick

Hi I put my computer into hibernate last night. This morning I could not save thunderbird email drafts and I rebooted my system. It stopped before launching X and offered a root rescue shell. I am using a solid state drive and it's very possible that it just ended up with a failed sector. It's my understanding that these drives are fast but less robust then rotary based ones. This

Hi Everyone I would like to use kicad for circuit design. It does not appear to be in the repos. I have built all the other software that I need and not included in the repos from source but I have struggled with kicad. There looks to be lots of places on the net that I can download RPMs not in the repos from but I don't know which ones run honest operations. Could anyone point me to a

I really love Centos. I loaded Ubuntu last night on another drive and booted from that because I want to develop an application to run on a tablet and GTK 3 seems like a better route for a touch screen device. However I really hated Ubuntu and I was so happy to get back to Centos on my first drive. I want to use GTK 2.0 / Gnome 2 for my daily desktop. I would however like to develop using