● 12.22.08

●● Mono Fans Owe an Apology: The Evolution of Mono Continues

Posted in Mono, Novell, OpenSUSE at 8:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Evolution, the mono (monkey) way

Our usual critics insisted this did not happen and would not happen, but they were wrong. [Credit: Tony Manco for the pointer]

OpenSUSE 11.1: Evolution dependent on Mono

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The cancerous Mono has spread its tentacles further into the GNOME Desktop environment which is present on the GNOME live CD, to the extent that removing mono-core results in the removal of Evolution as well, the default mail program.

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Of course, this fact was not among those which Novell released to the public in its announcement about the release.

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Mono is problematic for reasons that we mentioned before. It does not become a part of GNU/Linux merely as an addon because increasingly it becomes more of a requirement or an essential part of basic applications/functionality. Thus, it’s routinely installed by default and those who don’t know better will keep it there are get habitually dependent on applications that demand it, over time. This monkey business needs to stop because of the existing ramifications. █

MONOME: one application at a time

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