Okay, it’s not quite that bad but that’s how I feel. It’s been a long and dusty road fixing the major bugs in the Mono 2.0 VMware Appliance and LiveCD.
Fixed in 2.0-1: mono-debugger was missing. This is a big deal because this is the first release where the debugger is released at the same time as, and with guaranteed* compatibility with, the mono release.
* no guarantees, implied or otherwise, unless you have some other agreement with Novell 
Fixed in 2.0-2: No sound support. This took a while to fix. Why is hal-resmgr not required by any package or pattern?
Fixed in 2.0-3: Absolutely no scalable (truetype) fonts installed. You wouldn’t have noticed probably but it breaks Moonlight which, though not included (until the 1.0 release probably), we definitely want to work properly.
Those of you who had problems with ftp.novell.com should find that it’s working much better now. Please use the torrents.
Since I’m not at all confident that nothing else will go wrong I’m not going to link directly to anything this time. Find the LiveCD or VMware Appliance at the Mono download page. Bonus points to whoever finds the next bug serious enough that I have to fix it and re-release… again.
Coming soon for Mono 2.2…
But it was all worth it, right!?! Good job Andrew, its hard work, but the VMWare image is by far the easiest way for new people to get started with Mono and Linux. Your effort is much appreciated.
Thanks for the info… I noticed the fact the ISO got updated a few times, but had no idea what the update was (but I could guess for the first debugger update, from what I saw on a forum thread). That made me waste a second CD burning a newer version while I didn’t need it, as I thought maybe there were actual Mono bugs fixed, but no biggie.
Maybe there should be a “What’s New” doc/link next to the ISO, or something.
What happened to http://www.mono-live.com ???
what is the root password on the “Live CD”
Oops sudo worked
LiveCD produces unable to compile resgen2 to .resource from file system that compiled in Mandriva 2009 using mono-2.0.1-2mdv2009.1.i586.rpm.
I replaced the Mandriva 2.0 executable and the lib/mono with the directory and files on the CD. It gets further, about 208 “resx” files, than it did on the LiveCD, but still fails with the same error
Where can I get the souces for your updates
I didn’t make any changes from the official packages of Mono and the official packages have no patches. Please discuss your issue on the mono mailing list or forums http://www.go-mono.com/forums/.