Comments on: Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools

By: pcolon

pcolon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:36:27 +0000

There is also Kwallet manager (no mono).

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:44:19 +0000

For one example, the well regarded Windows password manager KeePass http://www.keepass.info runs on Linux now through mono.

By: Moo

Moo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:01:45 +0000

mono isn’t and won’t ever be used to port windows apps to Linux

Can you point to any evidence that supports the finality in this assertion?

By: eet

eet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:24:52 +0000

Thanks for being abusive… Or ‘ad-hominem’, as Roy likes to say,

Anyhooo; HOW do you want to hinder developers – whether from big, medium-sized or small companies, or free developers – to release commercial or non-commercial applications for Linux?

You’d need another damn-big conspiracy theory if you really want to try and answer that.

I think that with Mono tools for .NET available, Linux versions of .NET-apps are simply a free meal for any .NET developer!

By: Myfraudsoft

Myfraudsoft — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:15:06 +0000

eet, you lying troll, you know damn well that mono isn’t and won’t ever be used to port windows apps to Linux

By: eet

eet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:56 +0000

BTW, cudos to Novell for developing Mono tools for .NET; it will help me enormously when I pester Windows-centric developers about providing a Linux/Mono-version of their .NET-applications! They will have no excuse not to port these babies, ha!

By: eet

eet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:54:32 +0000

You are really loosing, aren’t you?

Yeah, ‘maybe F-Spot is an exception in Fedora’. Well, big, BIG ‘maybe’ here – Rhythmbox is dead, so next up: Banshee in Ubuntu AND Fedora as well as any other major distro! Unless, of course, somebody re-writes Banshee in ‘C’ within the next six months… ;p

Get over it; nobody in Ubuntu need paying by M$ for liking Mono-applications; they’re simply that good.

Your crazy-paranoid conspiracist view of the world will not change that.