> Install only one of them. Mono will conflict with .NET 2.0 and vice versa. > .NET 2.0 should work well. Mono adds additional functionality of items > outside of .NET. If both are installed then only .NET will be used. There's no problem with this, but it means there's no reason to install mono after .NET. Also, Mono 2.6 includes support for .NET 1.1 (but not 4.0). That still works, and Mono developers are still updating the 2.6 branch.