Is Linux Suffering From Mono?

In the general population, "Mono" may be best known for infecting teenagers with the "kissing disease." On the Linux blogs, it's recently caused a different kind of anguish as geeks far and wide have debated whether it's infected Linux too. It's a different Mono, of course, but its effects -- or, at least, the discussion of them -- have been no less agonizing. It all started earlier this month when Linux Canuck posted an explicit description of why he -- or she -- dislikes Mono and is consequently considering abandoning Ubuntu.