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orph on Feb 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Xamarin 2.0

Ubuntu removed Tomboy from their default install due to Mono dependency. Tomboy is still a well used and liked application on Linux desktops. Just one example of many great apps "killed" that I am most familiar with.

stephen_g on Feb 21, 2013 [–]

So going to Ubuntu Software Centre and clicking Install on Tomboy is too hard?

As far as I remember, the problem was that the Mono libraries took far too much space on the CD to justify it for one or two applications...

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