• Non-Novell/Microsoft Distro
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Hi, upon reading some papers, I've decided OpenSUSE isn't for me and I'd like to know of a distro that has the following features: No libmono No GNOME No Novell/Microsoft Software No Mono software. I'm leaning towards Debian, but anything is fine.
xubuntu
Pretty much any distro with KDE will keep you away from mono. The only parts of Gnome that I know of that need mono are Tomboy and Banshee. And I think most Gnome distros package in Tomboy so they have to have mono too. The KDE version of Fedora or Kubuntu would be good ones.
GNOME is also owned by Novell, so that's why I'm staying away from that.
What's wrong with Novell? I prefer GNOME to KDE to be honest.
I do not trust Novell. At all.
[QUOTE=Eleventeen;18251453]GNOME is also owned by Novell, so that's why I'm staying away from that.[/QUOTE] GNOME isn't owned by Novell, it's GPL and part of the GNU project.
Oh then I'm stupid and I feel 100% better.
The co-founder of the Gnome project is the vice president of Novell know. (Miguel de Icaza) Hes the guy behind Mono and Moonlight and all that. AFAIK, he isn't affiliated with the Gnome project anymore.
[quote]Microsoft Distro[/quote] :suicide: Also, why don't you like Novell? *Suse may be terrible distro, but other than that they're pretty good.
Everybody thinks they're the devil for supporting the Mono project amongst other things. Really get that damn lead hat off your head.
May someone tell me why we are on the Mono hate train?
[QUOTE=Prefan;18289686]May someone tell me why we are on the Mono hate train?[/QUOTE] Mono uses patented Microsoft technologies, .net/C#. The fear is that Microsoft will eventually sue Mono, probably when a large portion of Linux software uses Mono, so they can shut down lots of projects at once. Not sure if that'll happen though.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;18290065]Not sure if that'll happen though.[/QUOTE] It won't.
[QUOTE=DDex;18290113]It won't.[/QUOTE] You really can't tell with Microsoft.
Be a man, go with arch... be a crazy lonely man with a lot of time on his hands, go with gentoo...
Arch isn't any harder than a distro like debian, you just don't get the sources in the beginning like in most distros.
He said nothing about KDE guys!
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