diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6980e04bcd..8e7017f852 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ OmniSharp-Roslyn is a .NET development platform based on [Roslyn](https://github
 
 OmniSharp-Roslyn is built with the [.NET Core SDK](https://dot.net/) on Windows and [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/) on OSX/Linux. It targets the __net461__ target framework. OmniSharp requires __mono__ (>=5.2.0) if it is run on a platform other than Windows.
 
-For Arch Linux users, need package [msbuild-stable](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/msbuild-stable/) (>= 15.0)
+For Arch Linux users, need package [msbuild-stable](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/msbuild-stable/) (>= 15.0).
 
 In addition, if you need the HTTP interface and you want to run on Linux, you'll also need to make sure that you have [libuv](http://libuv.org) installed.
 
+See also https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/issues/1202#issuecomment-421543905 .
+
 ## What's new
 
 See our [change log](https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for all of the updates.
diff --git a/build.cake b/build.cake
index e0706acd61..e5fba2928d 100644
--- a/build.cake
+++ b/build.cake
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ bool AllowLegacyTests()
 
     if (platform.IsLinux)
     {
-        var version = platform.Version.ToString();
+        var version = platform.Version?.ToString();
 
         // Taken from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/cli/rel/1.0.0/scripts/obtain/dotnet-install.sh
         switch (platform.DistroName)
@@ -638,8 +638,6 @@ Task("Test")
                 // This is necessary to work around a Mono bug that is exasperated by xUnit.
                 DirectoryHelper.Copy($"{env.Folders.MonoMSBuildLib}", instanceFolder);
 
-                DeleteUnnecessaryAssemblies(instanceFolder);
-
                 var runScript = CombinePaths(env.Folders.Mono, "run");
 
                 // By default, the run script launches OmniSharp. To launch our Mono runtime
@@ -655,25 +653,6 @@ Task("Test")
     }
 });
 
-/// <summary>
-/// Delete assemblies that are included in our Mono package.
-/// </summary>
-void DeleteUnnecessaryAssemblies(string folder)
-{
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.AppContext.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Numerics.Vectors.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.ComponentModel.Primitives.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Console.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.IO.FileSystem.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll"));
-    FileHelper.Delete(CombinePaths(folder, "System.Threading.Thread.dll"));
-}
-
 void CopyMonoBuild(BuildEnvironment env, string sourceFolder, string outputFolder)
 {
     DirectoryHelper.Copy(sourceFolder, outputFolder, copySubDirectories: false);
@@ -681,8 +660,6 @@ void CopyMonoBuild(BuildEnvironment env, string sourceFolder, string outputFolde
     // Copy MSBuild runtime and libraries
     DirectoryHelper.Copy($"{env.Folders.MSBuild}", CombinePaths(outputFolder, "msbuild"));
 
-    // Included in Mono
-    DeleteUnnecessaryAssemblies(outputFolder);
 }
 
 string PublishMonoBuild(string project, BuildEnvironment env, BuildPlan plan, string configuration)