How to remove Mono :-P

Thanks for reading my post about Boycott Novell, and thanks to the people who discussed it. Now let's answer some questions that I got asked on MSN, that you might be wondering about too :-)

The forum post on Linsux was indirectly what made me write the article - I agreed that something had to be written about BN, but I disagreed with the Linsux article. So, in true Linux style, I wrote what I thought needed to be written. But there's more to it than that; I was shocked by the "Credibility Index" page of BN because it reminded me of how George Orwell used to send letters to Downing Street, listing the people in parliment and public service who he thought were communists.

If you are worried about Mono, then remove it by all means. If you want to stop the ubuntu-desktop metapackage from being removed too, then it's safe to manually delete the files that were installed by mono-common and any other affected packages. When you dist-upgrade, Apt will ask you if you want to fully install the new mono-common, or if you want to keep those files deleted.

I don't work for any software company, nor open-source software project.

Now, let's stop commenting on Boycott Novell stories or anti-Boycott-Novell stories, and let's just vote the bad ones down. Press the red button :-)