Comments on: Awww.. Fedora 12 includes Mono and Windows.Forms by default, in GNOME

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:16:53 +0000

It’s interesting to see how much C# and .NET has taken off. I wonder why Java never did so..

-c

By: neighborlee

neighborlee — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:32:08 +0000

It just goes to show how out of touch alot of OSS really is , and that just like apple , it gets in ‘bed’ with Microsoft. I am not saying everything Microsoft does turns to utter garbage, but when OSS /linux has ‘alternatives’ to patently avoid the goober mess etc., and ignores those options, then its a clear indication of bad leadership that some of us saw coming a very very long time ago.

It’s something often missed so here you go:
http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/paint-mono-paintnet-fuer-linux.html

Yes you read it right.SLOW crashy and thats a current test..not unlike f-spot ..are we seeing a common thread here yet ( The are other references on google to prove this , one is ‘turned skyward’) ?

Too bad, so sad, but really does anyone care that mono might be gone in 13, that its there in 12 seems the more relevant awkwardness ( we’ll see? ) . What exactly was the fear with not shipping mono, was there some magical app that was so worthy, that shooting OSS in the proverbial foot was more logical that following logical steps for the good of the core ? PCbsd understands avoiding mono apparantly and that’s where Im sticking for foreseeable future, because I know they have my(our) back.

cheers

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:56:23 +0000

Hi Rahul,

That’s good to hear. Any other movement on the Mono front?

-c

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:54:21 +0000

We did eventually replace F-Spot like I indicated earlier

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-March/005913.html

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:33:42 +0000

Hey Rahul,

Thanks for the link. It doesn’t mention anything about replacing F-Spot, but rather gThumb. Still, if Shotwell is good enough, there’d be no reason to keep F-Spot I guess.

-c

By: Rahul Sundaram

Rahul Sundaram — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:08:46 +0000

Chris,

F-Spot might be getting replaced by Shotwell by default in Fedora 13.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-November/msg00059.html

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:09:20 +0000

Hi Luya,

Thanks, it wasn’t my intention to imply that, but I did include the words “by default” as it is the default. Naturally you can customise whatever you like

-c

By: Luya Tshimbalanga

Luya Tshimbalanga — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:47:22 +0000

Chris,
Unchecking Fspot from DVD installation via “Customize now” will not include mono packages. It sounds like you blog implies Fedora does no longer allow custom installation which is not true. You should at least mentioned it.

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