Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 10th Jan 2006 04:18 UTC, submitted by a little bird via IM
Red Hat was the main opponent against the inclusion of Mono on their products or Gnome's core. But this is all past now and Fedora Core 5 will include Mono and some of its front row applications like Beagle and F-Spot will be too. My Take: After I got tipped on Saturday about this, I talked to Mono's founder, Miguel de Icaza, but he seemed to be genuinely unaware of the latest happenings on Rawhide. The great news will hopefully expand Mono and make GTK# the new recommended toolkit for future Gnome applications (although this is just a personal wish at this point).
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Red Hat really relies on Gnome and it was more important for them to partially heal the rift that was obviously growing than to see it keep getting wider. They probably also felt that they wanted to bolster the apps they have in Fedora and let people try out some Mono ones as well. You won't see it in RHEL, nor will people be writing non-existent web stuff with ASP.Net.
The chances we'll see Red Hat actually using Mono and using it for any development is pretty much non-existent. I know Eugenia thinks the sun shines out of .Net's and Mono's backsides but you're not going to see GTK# emerging as some sort of recommended standard.
Red Hat's development environment of choice is still going to be Java, but they look as if they're concentrating on getting that completed from the server-end first and then to the desktop. It's going to take quite a bit of work though.