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novell die-off imminent?
novell die-off imminent?
Posted Nov 7, 2006 21:20 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)In reply to: novell die-off imminent? by gravious
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft
well in a way if this was to come to a head, maybe now is the time for it to happen, before mono becomes deeply integrated into popular distributions.
as of now, purging mono and living without it appears to be relatively painless, and once again this validates the open source ecosystem of tools as compared to monoculture (pun intended!).
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novell die-off imminent?
Posted Nov 7, 2006 22:28 UTC (Tue) by N0NB (subscriber, #3407) [Link]
So far as I know, living without mono is quite painless as I don't have it installed anywhere. Java is another story as several apps depend on having it available although Debian does stay away from Sun's version. Worse is Flash which has no real work-alike available. I hold it in disdain, but keep it installed for the odd webpage that uses it which is generally for entertainment purposes and could probably be excised without too much pain. NoScript helps with that a lot.