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I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.7.8, available now on the download page.And there is an new project roadmap [ED:Works with firebird out of the box]                    

About 15 hours ago, I posted an article on how to remove Mono from Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. A similar thing happened the last time, when I did a piece on doing the same thing for Hardy heron. This: is the Mono effect…

Once hackers have stopped arguing whether it's “free software” or “open source”, and discussing the relative merits of GNOME or KDE, they can always get stuck into the perennial question of whether they ought to develop applications using Mono, tied as it is to Microsoft's .NET framework, or not....On Open Enterprise blog.

There is a new version of mojoPortal that has been released, version 2.2.7.6.  Besides bug fixes, there are some new features contained in this release, including:

• a new Content Rating system
• Feed Manager improvements
• a new option in Site Statistics to show a graph of new site member registrations

To download mojoPortal, check out their download page.

Here's a very good question: why are people (including me) nasty to Mono, but nice to Samba? On Open Enterprise blog.

Mono’s 2.0 grand release has finally arrived. See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9. Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform. Also you must use Firebird DotNet Provider 2.5 with  Firebird 2.1 . Here are my notes on Ubuntu Intrepid                    

Last week I chatted to the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale. He was telling me how happy he was that he'd found a new CEO to take over the day-to-day running of Linden Lab. Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Except that in this case, I believe him....On Open Enterprise blog.

I have had a long-time problem with Mono and the Mono-based applications that, for reasons I do not understand, come installed by default with Ubuntu. For those who don’t know about it, Mono: provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. That sounds pretty innocuous on the face of it. But Mono has a potentially fatal sting-in-the-tail for some, and leaves a rather nasty taste in the mouths of many others…

The Debian project appears to be cleaning itself off of Mono.

Fedora considers Moonlight to be too much of a risk to Fedora

The situation revolving around Eee PC (Xandros derivative) is revisited; Mono still raises concerns.

There are some hurdles to jump if you wish to make use of Novell's so-called Silverlight support (Microsoft's excuse, bogus cross platform)

Another very interesting interpretation which shows why Novell and Mono are enemies to Free software.

An analysis with a top lawyer suggests that Moonlight is to be avoided

I noticed a comment thread on Groklaw about Moonlight, with a link to the license terms on Microsoft's website. They call it Covenant to Downstream Recipients of Moonlight - Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration . A comment by Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb on Dana Blankenhorn's article about Novell being a lead pony for Silverlight started the discussion originally. read more