Well, still better than an Oracle approved curriculum.

Visual Studio is quite Windows specific, but the others are more or less cross-platform thanks to Mono.

Yes. Yes I would. But I think it's a good thing that KDE is doing their own thing first and foremost.

Hey then why don't you install Fedora on it? =)

Computing science is not about programming, but programming is often used as a tool in computing science and they therefore (rightfully) have you take programming courses before going into the more theoretical material.

That's good; but that's the CentOS SRPMs, not the RHEL SRPMs. I assume Oracle wants the latter.

Debian decided to switch to Systemd after Wheezy shipped, so it won't end up in stable until at least the next release.

Are you sure you have not changed the base channel to 6.4? As recently as today I updated a RHEL (not CentOS) 6.4 machine to 6.5 and it happily updated to redhat-release-server-6Server-6.5.0.1.el6.x86_64 with just a simple yum update. And I don't think we have done anything special to that machine.

The summary mentions OpenJDK 7 as something new in 7. Just want to print out that both 5 and 6 has support for OpenJDK 7 as well.

I guess Nvidia is more than welcome to submit their driver under a compatible license if they want better compatibility.

If you're talking about traditional init scripts then Systemd has support for them. You can continue to use them, but you should probably at least check that they work as intended. Not sure if Upstart jobs are still supported thoigh.

I for one have found it very pleasing to use, but if you want to give up on an entire operating system based on its init system then all I can say is good luck.

Maybe I'm missing something, but given that Oracle makes their living (partly) on repackaging RHEL then that sounds like a good reason to get a RHEL subscription.

I just want to point out, *everyone* does not like this law; just like *everyone* does not like handguns.

Well, the G in GNOME stands for GNU and it is part of the GNU Projects.