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Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-need-a-better-girdle dept.

pallmall1 writes "OS News reports that Debian developer Josselin Mouette got Tomboy accepted as a dependency for gnome in the next release of Debian (codenamed Squeeze). While that may seem like nothing big (except for the 50 MByte size of the Tomboy package), Tomboy requires Mono — meaning that Mono will now be installed by default. Apparently, Debian doesn't have the same concerns over using specifications patented by Microsoft and licensed under undisclosed terms that Red Hat does. Perhaps Debian doesn't believe that Microsoft might do something like Rambus did."

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  1. Re:Default installation? by Norsefire · · Score: 4, Funny
    Did you figure that out all by yourself, or did you do something as unslashdot-like as read the summary?

    OS News reports that Debian developer Josselin Mouette got Tomboy accepted as a dependency for gnome

  2. Another good reason to use KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNOME folks are really pushing the adoption of KDE 4 nowadays.
    It is great to see so much friendship between open-source projects :)

  3. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Python is awesome. Linux is better for having it around.

    Fixed it for ya.

  4. Re:Call Upon the ECMA Code of Conduct by ketilwaa · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just did an apt-get update on my Ubuntu install. Right before, I checked my e-mail. Does any other slashdotters have nice anecdotes from their computing day? Has anyone opened a document or did a uname or anything that will interest us? I'll be waiting!