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If I'm migrating .net apps to Linux, I would target Java or other known Linux platform, rather than Mono with unknown status in terms of .net framework compatibility.

As others have pointed out, that's not migrating an existing app, that's rewriting it. As for 'unknown compatibility', not everything in .NET is implemented in Mono (WPF for example), but the libraries that are there work well. There is a migration analyser which will tell you if your app uses Windows-specific calls or APIs not yet supported by Mono. There is also the new project M/Invoke which can let .NET apps that call native Windows APIs run under Linux by replacing the P/Invoke call with a call to some managed code (which needs to be written, Wine-like).

There's been some vocal discussion about Pyro on someone's blog (http://squeedlyspooch.com/blog/archives/002095.ht ml), which is probably relevant to this article.

If you're in to buggy open source software and you use GNU/Linux, try out turtle which integrates with the f-spot photo program.

Chris Toshok of GNOME fame is working on open source (some of the original files still required) StarCraft implementation in C# called SCSharp. Who knows, maybe this project will resolve the resolution issue.

Here's a link for those too lazy to search.

Bear in mind that the programmer who was raided hasn't been arrested. He got his machines back a while ago.

Here's a BBC story about a raid in SF... and here's a blog post about a geek in SF getting raided and having his gear taken by the FBI...

Remembered as the crew who created LessTiff, the Hungry Progammers were raided by the FBI in order to obtain evidence in the Half-Life 2 case. Details of the raid are a real eye-opener.