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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. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    C# is awesome. Linux is better for having it around.

  2. Mono is a gateway to cross-platform virii by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's just like Wine and DOSEmu: a gateway to viruses that originated on Microsoft platforms. Many will argue that they don't effect linux because they are sandboxed, yet they will effect linux because they will serve to run the mission-critical software that holds the critical and data in that delapidated sandbox.

    Besides the fact, better solutions exist than C# and its Microsoft-spired Mono. This is Micros~2 pushing its monopoly weight into markets that it has NEVER EVER produced any product other than the sake of a for-profit venture to schill into Colleges and Universities with their monetary influences.

    Get those bums out of here, and take Mono with them. Mono is nothing more than the plastic implementation of a paper bag; who the f*ck said it was progress to begin with?

  3. As a .NET developer & a Linux user by BlueScreenOfTOM · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...I'm very excited by this. I've been using Mono in Linux and OS X for a long time now and it has been working great. I'm not sure what Microsoft will think of this, but from what I've read thus far (which is admittedly not a ton) they haven't been getting in Mono's way... in fact, I believe that they gave information to help the Mono project so that it could be leveraged for Silverlight.

    Who knows what Microsoft is going to do in the future, but for now I'm excited for Mono.

  4. mono is crashy crap by Lord+Ender · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have an app running on an Ubuntu server which requires the Mono-HTTPAPI service. This service crashes about twice per month, bringing the app down until someone restarts it.

    It is my experience that Mono is absolutely not ready for production use.

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