Mono is developed by Novell, so if that's your main app it would make sense to use their Linux distribution, SuSE. Either as OpenSuSE (or whatever the capitalization is these days; cf NeXTStep) or SLES. It is not minimal but it includes the latest Mono stuff and you can probably pay for support if you want. Since there is some overlap between Mono developers and GNOME developers and some GNOME applications like Banshee, F-Spot and Tomboy are written in C#, it probably makes sense to use GNOME as your desktop environment.
That said, I'm quite happy with Fedora, Mono packages are included, and if you need something more recent than the last Fedora version you can easily compile it yourself.
Your job is to be a software developer, not a desktop-customization weenie. So forget about spending time on making or finding a 'minimal' environment. Any modern Linux distribution won't get in your way and will let you get on with porting your apps to Mono.
Indeed, coLinux has existed for several years. And for much of that time there have been distros specialized to use it. But the way these things work is that some new feature starts out in obscure specialist projects and slowly migrates to the larger distributions. When Ubuntu itself picks up coLinux support, that will also be newsworthy.
What you describe is a window manager and maybe a desktop panel, but not a whole interface. The simplicity and speed of fvwm makes no difference to how easy it is to configure wireless networking or connect to your IMAP account or burn a CD.
Come on now, this is a pretty significant step. Lots of Slashdotters must be stuck developing Windows.NET applications and would love to find a way to deploy them on Linux. If you haven't tried it, Mono is pretty cool: copy your.NET executable to Linux and run
That web page you cite doesn't make any mention of it being a trademark. AFAIK, the trademark registration failed because by 1998 the term 'open source' was already too vague. You can have a trademark without it being a registered trademark, but the OSI doesn't claim even this.
OTOH, you should certainly say what you mean, and 'open source' has a generally accepted definition which is the same as 'free software'.
Umm... by your argument, if you went down to one bit per channel then the display would either be unreadably dark or totally washed-out. Yet many computers had one-bit-per-channel displays and somehow still managed to display dark black, bright white, bright red and so on.
If there are only 16 steps in between black and fully red, then there are 16 steps. It doesn't mean that black cannot be just as black, or that fully red cannot be just as red. There are just fewer steps in between the two extremes.
Wars are advocated by some people who will be killed in a war. Capital punishment, sometimes, must be advocated by someone who is later sentenced to death.
No, 'cos they really do mean yottabyte, 1_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000 bytes (according to Wikipedia). It would be as silly to use powers of two for annual storage sales by HP as to use powers of two to measure Russian oil exports or the population of China.
Unfortunately a bolt-on Boehm garbage collector is not real GC. It has to guess what things are pointers and what aren't, so it can get confused by integers that happen to be a valid address. If you think that's unlikely to happen in practice, consider the scope for denial-of-service attacks by feeding in data designed to trick the GC. When dealing with security, theoretical possibilities become all too practical.
Real lambda functions (not Boost's weird simulation) will be cool.
What incentive do you the householder have to get one of these 'smart' meters? Isn't it just annoying that it cuts out your dishwasher for the convenience of the power company? Why not bypass it by plugging the dishwasher into the always-on circuit?
Im glad the lying scum at Creative got what they deserved. Next, time to sue those wicked Ethernet card manufacturers claiming one gigabit per second. Whos with me?
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Mono is developed by Novell, so if that's your main app it would make sense to use their Linux distribution, SuSE. Either as OpenSuSE (or whatever the capitalization is these days; cf NeXTStep) or SLES. It is not minimal but it includes the latest Mono stuff and you can probably pay for support if you want. Since there is some overlap between Mono developers and GNOME developers and some GNOME applications like Banshee, F-Spot and Tomboy are written in C#, it probably makes sense to use GNOME as your desktop environment.
That said, I'm quite happy with Fedora, Mono packages are included, and if you need something more recent than the last Fedora version you can easily compile it yourself.
Your job is to be a software developer, not a desktop-customization weenie. So forget about spending time on making or finding a 'minimal' environment. Any modern Linux distribution won't get in your way and will let you get on with porting your apps to Mono.
He said 'Jesus' not 'the Old Testament'.
'First actual case of bug being found'
Indeed, coLinux has existed for several years. And for much of that time there have been distros specialized to use it. But the way these things work is that some new feature starts out in obscure specialist projects and slowly migrates to the larger distributions. When Ubuntu itself picks up coLinux support, that will also be newsworthy.
What you describe is a window manager and maybe a desktop panel, but not a whole interface. The simplicity and speed of fvwm makes no difference to how easy it is to configure wireless networking or connect to your IMAP account or burn a CD.
Come on now, this is a pretty significant step. Lots of Slashdotters must be stuck developing Windows .NET applications and would love to find a way to deploy them on Linux. If you haven't tried it, Mono is pretty cool: copy your .NET executable to Linux and run
% export MONO_IOMAP=all
% mono my_program.exe
You might be surprised how well it works.
http://gmane.org/
I agree that most web forums royally suck. Slashdot is one of the best, and it still sucks.
Tried to open the hard disk? WTF?
Does the OSI assert that 'open source' is a trademark?
That web page you cite doesn't make any mention of it being a trademark. AFAIK, the trademark registration failed because by 1998 the term 'open source' was already too vague. You can have a trademark without it being a registered trademark, but the OSI doesn't claim even this.
OTOH, you should certainly say what you mean, and 'open source' has a generally accepted definition which is the same as 'free software'.
Umm... by your argument, if you went down to one bit per channel then the display would either be unreadably dark or totally washed-out. Yet many computers had one-bit-per-channel displays and somehow still managed to display dark black, bright white, bright red and so on.
If there are only 16 steps in between black and fully red, then there are 16 steps. It doesn't mean that black cannot be just as black, or that fully red cannot be just as red. There are just fewer steps in between the two extremes.
SMTP does what it was designed to do, but that may no longer be what we want.
It's either that or they just go back to using Comic Sans.
Wars are advocated by some people who will be killed in a war. Capital punishment, sometimes, must be advocated by someone who is later sentenced to death.
A yobibyte is about 1.2 yottabytes.
No, 'cos they really do mean yottabyte, 1_000_000_000_000_000_000_000_000 bytes (according to Wikipedia). It would be as silly to use powers of two for annual storage sales by HP as to use powers of two to measure Russian oil exports or the population of China.
Unfortunately a bolt-on Boehm garbage collector is not real GC. It has to guess what things are pointers and what aren't, so it can get confused by integers that happen to be a valid address. If you think that's unlikely to happen in practice, consider the scope for denial-of-service attacks by feeding in data designed to trick the GC. When dealing with security, theoretical possibilities become all too practical.
Real lambda functions (not Boost's weird simulation) will be cool.
OTOH, I would pay to see Troll Tech adopt the standard C++ library in Qt, rather than reinventing their own strings, vectors, lists and so on.
What incentive do you the householder have to get one of these 'smart' meters? Isn't it just annoying that it cuts out your dishwasher for the convenience of the power company? Why not bypass it by plugging the dishwasher into the always-on circuit?
Im glad the lying scum at Creative got what they deserved. Next, time to sue those wicked Ethernet card manufacturers claiming one gigabit per second. Whos with me?