mono – Just another Linux geek

19 November, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

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

The Fedora 12 Constantine GNOME Live CD is Mono free, but installing GNOME from the DVD pulls in not only Mono itself, but also support for Windows.Forms (mono-winforms), which is […]

18 November, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Fedora 12, finally a Mono-free system by default

With Fedora 12, the .NET note taking program Tomboy has been replaced with C++ note taking clone, Gnote. This means that the default GNOME install is completely Mono free. Thanks […]

16 November, 200916 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – how to keep Mono, remove Windows.Forms

The new release of openSUSE ships Mono with Windows.Forms by default. For users who don’t mind Mono but would rather not have Windows.Forms installed, there are other options. You could […]

16 November, 200916 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – Mono with Windows.Forms by default, in GNOME

I was pleased to see (although not too surprised) that the KDE desktop in openSUSE 11.2 does not ship Mono by default. With GNOME, however it’s a different story. The […]

13 November, 200913 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – no Mono by default, in KDE

I’ve just installed the latest release of openSUSE (version 11.2), which now defaults to the KDE desktop. I was pleased to see that this does not install Mono by default […]

16 October, 200916 October, 2009FOSS

Jeremy Allison on Mono (and how it differs from Samba)

Jeremy Allison has spoken up about Mono, Novell’s implementation of Microsoft’s heavily patented .NET platform. He recommends that it be put into “restricted” repositories until the licensing issues can be […]

15 October, 200915 October, 2009FOSS

Mono is a trap – evidence

Still aren’t convinced that Mono is a trap which ultimately only benefits Microsoft? Take a look at this “Highly Confidential” document from Microsoft (from Comes vs Microsoft case) entitled “Effective […]

22 July, 200922 July, 2009FOSS

Context

Being in the spotlight means people often take things you say our of context. I’m speaking of Richard Stallman, who recently got hammered over his “church of emacs” speech and […]

9 July, 20099 July, 2009FOSS

Novell to split Mono

Miguel de lcaza has written on his blog about Microsoft’s announcement to include C# and CLI under their community promise. The promise itself aside, Miguel has announced something very interesting, […]

7 July, 2009FOSS

Microsoft C# and CLI patent promise coming?

Peter Galli has written on his blog that he was informed by Scott Guthrie (the Corporate Vice President for the .Net Developer Platform) that Microsoft will include C# and CLI […]