Comments on: Quick Mention: When Mono Messes Up Your Server… http://techrights.org/2008/10/30/mono-fscks-php5-apache2/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2008/10/30/mono-fscks-php5-apache2/comment-page-1/#comment-31220 Needs Sunlight Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:38:41 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/30/mono-fscks-php5-apache2/#comment-31220 Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, will ship soon. A 650MB CD can only hold so much redundancy. We'll find that a lot of useful but low profile packages have been removed to make room for the 100's of megabytes used by mono and the mono-based packages that duplicate the functions of existing packages. Just like with a Wikipedia article, MS is able to dilute a full distro. We can make room for more functionality to the basic installation CD by clearing away mono and its dependent packages . Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, will ship soon.

A 650MB CD can only hold so much redundancy.

We’ll find that a lot of useful but low profile packages have been removed to make room for the 100′s of megabytes used by mono and the mono-based packages that duplicate the functions of existing packages.

Just like with a Wikipedia article, MS is able to dilute a full distro. We can make room for more functionality to the basic installation CD by clearing away mono and its dependent packages .

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