Now that Novell has been purchased by Attachmate and has laid off its mono developers. And a new mono company xamarin has been started which is not associated with open suse.
Can we expect official ubuntu support going forward? Ubuntu represents a larger user base for mono then suse. It has 3 default mono apps but is still stuck on a very old version of mono. Ubuntu has shown a willingness to adopt mono applications and would be an idea primary platform for the mono project going forward. Without the funding from Novell I not sure that open suse has anything left to offer the mono project and I'm sure it does not deserve the exclusive first class support it has historically enjoyed. I have a open source mono application (Wide Margin https://bitbucket.org/trampster/widemargin/wiki/Home) which is getting close to first alpha release and I will firstly be targeting Ubuntu. Because that's where the desktop users are (as was demonstrated by the banshee usage stats). I would love to have the mono project behind my chosen platform and know that I can use the lastest and greatest mono features.
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