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May 8, 2012
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It would be nice to see an offering of other Distros of Linux. I am interested in Mono development, but implementing that on Ubuntu is a bear since some of the default functions of Ubuntu are dependant on parts of Mono and you have to configure around that. Suse Linux is a good choice for Mono development.
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May 15, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: AlfromRoke
I was seriously not planning on replying to you, because I am aware of the fact that you are only looking for arguments, but either way:May 12, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: TuxRaiderPen
mono is an uneccessary evil.We are developing for Linux, not some other viros.
You can point to this or that origanization, they are all failing to learn from history Embrace, Extend, Extinquish. And thats exactly what will happen. Fall in with crooks you get what happens, and that will be patent ligation over mono.
Like I am going to trust something to some "promise" from a company which is in direct competition with Linux! Your kidding right!? !? !?
No thanks, thats just way to big a risk, and this is a LINUX development system. The target users don't use that. C/C++ are the overwhelming majority here.
No need to taint things and risk undue litigation on a "promise." Yeah thats a legal basis to stand on.
May 11, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: AlfromRoke
@TuxRaiderPen: I am not going to get into a discussion with you, but for anybody interested read this and especially the part that both the ubuntu foundation and fedora decided after serious consideration that it was fine to include mono as default. And aside of that, as far as I have seen the reason it's not included in kubuntu isn't due to the potential patent danger, but rather because they never saw need to.May 10, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: TuxRaiderPen
ubunutu may include it, but KUbunutu does NOT and never has.Its not needed, nor wanted. Its a patent trap, which is enough for its exclusion, add in its origins...NO THANKS.
The purpose is to get away from this kind of cruft.
Linux and no taint, please.
May 10, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: AlfromRoke
@TuxRaiderPen: Ubuntu includes mono automatically... like quite a number of other distributions do as well. (Despite the fact I know next to nothing about mono except what I read 2 days ago :P )May 10, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: TuxRaiderPen
Please do NOT inlcude mono!This is nothing but a way to set yourself up for trouble, its patent trap, period. And no amount of PR spin from its promoters can change that, and no the ISO acceptance of it doesn't wash either. Theres nothing good about mono software or disease. Just say no!
May 8, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By:
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Could you point us towards some resources/people/pages to understand more about getting Mono running on Ubuntu? I have no idea at the moment, but in theory I could see that having a Mono profile would be handy, so I'm curious to see what we'd need to do to make it work. Also, part of our hope with the profiles is that by using the (more than likely Chef-driven tool) Sputnik tool to configure these profiles we can automate all that "configuring" that may be overly onerous to do by hand.May 8, 2012 Comment Link
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Posted By: AlfromRoke
Default linux installation isn't that important I guess, it only takes half an hour to install a different distro. The important thing is that they get their drivers right and it would be undoable to do this for all different distros by hand, so I think it's a good thing they choose for a single distribution and they should leave it up to the community to port the necessary code to different projects (which should be extremely simple for experienced distro developers).