SHARE
Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp

How GNU/Linux users can keep Mono at bay

Written By
SV
Sam Varghese
Jun 1, 2009

[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese
for this link. ]

“Chase dislikes Mono for a variety of reasons. “A
sketchy patent cloud hangs over it, and I prefer to keep on the
level (my music collection is mostly ripped to OGG instead of MP3;
I prefer to browse without proprietary extensions; etc),” he told
iTWire.

Additionally, “it’s a bit bloated for my poor low-end machines –
both in terms of disk-space and the runtime memory footprint and I
find C# (the first-class language of Mono) an ugly and hackish
language.””

Complete
Story

SV

Sam Varghese

Recommended for you...

5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools
webmaster
Jun 13, 2025
Grafito: Systemd Journal Log Viewer with a Beautiful Web UI
Bobby Borisov
Jun 12, 2025
FreeBSD Wants to Know a Few Things
brideoflinux
May 11, 2025
NVK enabled for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Kara Bembridge
May 1, 2025
Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.