It's not a third party addon, it's a feature you can enable or disable that is an integrated part of Tomboy.

You wrote: "Gnote is a line by line clone of Tomboy from C# to C++. Even the GUI is exactly the same."
It is not. Tomboy offers features that Gnote does not. The fact that an actual clone is worked upon does not mean it's here. You are telling me Gnote is incomplete, which it is. The reasons for lacking features are largely irrelevant to the user.

Thanks for including a coherent and actually interesting view of what this whole thing is about. Screaming "M$ are trying to pwn us!111!!" like so many seem to be doing is not a valid argument, and you sir, take a different path, and I commend you for doing so.

If it lacks some features it is hardly a line by line clone, is it? The source for my claim can easily be your acceptance of the fact that Tomboy has features that Gnote is lacking. The fact that someone is working on it doesn't mean anythin, the feature simply isn't there for me to use.

Judging an app by what it *might* do in the future is hardly a good procedure for including the app in a default install. If Gnote is the better app in the future, then, by all means, substitute the two.

It is not a line by line clone. A small count: Tomboy has 13 addons that comes with the app, Gnote has 6. For one, Gnote does not have any synchronization addons.

Stallman did comment on Mono, and it's not necessarily what one would expect: See?

I just did an apt-get update on my Ubuntu install. Right before, I checked my e-mail. Does any other slashdotters have nice anecdotes from their computing day? Has anyone opened a document or did a uname or anything that will interest us? I'll be waiting!

Last I read, Gnote doesn't have the same feature set as Tomboy, so that might have an impact on the size of the thing, although you're already comapring apples to oranges when you add in Tomboy deps with the install size. Also, the amount of disk space an app uses doesn't really tell you anything about how much other resources it actually uses. Some anecdotal evidence for the ricers out there: I have Tomboy running all of the time, and there is no difference in battery life with Tomboy running or not. That gives some idea that this is not a power sucking devil of an application it is made out to be.

When taking a stand towards something, I find it sometimes useful to look at the people being very for or against. Viewing some of the comments from anti Mono people like this, makes in itself a good case for being sceptical towards the anti crowd in this case.

To me, GNU/Linux is not a handful of fledgling arms and tinfoil hats, and that is excactly what I see from a lot of the anti Mono people.

I'm pretty sure no human, mental or not, is able to open the door. Too lazy to list the evidence right now though.

Back in my Fedora Core 2 or 3 days, I had a Dell Inspiron 9300 (?) with some kind of bug that required me to wiggle my mouse, otherwise the network connection would stop completely. Solution: Install Ubuntu. Haven't looked back much since.

On the fun side, it made me feel like I could physically speed up or slow down my network, but that was only fun for 2 minutes.

Thanks you for pointing me to that!

So you actually thought that an upcoming release of IE with Firefox extension support, multiple rendering engines, full CS3 support, and an entirely rewritten javascript engine, all by this summer, sounded reasonable?

Now, now, don't be so sure. You know what they say about monkeys and the works of Shakespeare? Maybe the monkeys finally has had enough time, and are ready to replace the former MS developers.

I'm now 31 years old. I was taught the about greenhouse effect and the ozone layer in school here in Norway when I was ~13. That's 18 years ago, so Norway must have dodged those buzzwords.

The first link disappeared: Here it is