Mono: My Two Bits

Not that my input on the matter is important, but I feel like publishing my interpretation on Richard Stallman’s stance on Mono, the free implementation of .NET.  An essay by Stallman has caused a bit of confusion; though I feel the point of the document is to establish where the use of Mono is and is not acceptable.  Ultimately, in my opinion, Stallman is saying that for Free Software projects, like the GNOME deskop, the use of Mono is  like wrestling in a leper colony; whereas using Mono for applications that are intended to be implemented across several platforms is just dandy.  In other words: if you are developing .NET applications for use like Java applications (cross platform), go for it, but if you are developing for Free platforms only, use a free language so if Microsoft says “pay up,” it is not necessary to re-write it.  Can everyone shut up now?

Sabayon 4 in (Brief) Review

I received an e-mail from linuxquestions.org stating that a Sabayon board had just been added to their site.  I looked into it a bit and learned a few things:

1. This distro is based on Gentoo Linux.
2. This distro doesn’t have a specialisation.
3. It’s offered in KDE and GNOME flavours.
4. It comes on a 2 gB .iso

This review in short: SLOW.

Don’t hurt me FreeBSD

Last night, I tried to triple boot with FreeBSD.  OS X is based on BSD, so I hoped that using it would give me some insight into the workings of Macs.  When thinking about how it went, the word disaster comes to mind.  After downloading the .iso and burning it to a DVD, I rebooted and started the treacherous course.

Microsoft Watch drinking game

Over at Microsoft Watch, there seems to be no such thing as comment moderation.  As a result, the comment threads are a virtual mad-house where Linux and Mac fan boys troll rabid Microsoft supporters.  The resulting hi-jinks are unbearably stupid and drive me to drink.  Well, drink I shall, and while I’m at it, I invite you to join in.

Goodbye, Firefox!

Today I finally got sick of how slow Firefox has gotten.  I remember when Firefox was new, shiny and fast.  The inter-net was a-buzz with the news of this sleek alternative to IE.  However, since the 3.0 release, performance (from my standpoint) has been declining.  Currently on my highly minimalistic Arch Linux install, it takes about 4  seconds to start.  I haven’t used it on my Windows 7 install in months in favour of Chromium nightly builds.  As for Arch, I’ll be using Midori until Chromium is beta on Linux.