http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:18:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22225/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22225/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community/ If you don't like personal, blog-style reporting, you might want to skip this item. A few days ago, during a speech at Software Freedom Day in Boston, Richard Stallman has, at least in my book, crossed a line that I thought he would never cross. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:35:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 233 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News Hiev http://www.osnews.com/story/21858/FSF_Microsoft_s_Community_Promise_Empty_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21858/FSF_Microsoft_s_Community_Promise_Empty_/ As you would have guessed, the Mono debate is long from over. Two weeks ago, Microsoft extended its legally binding and perpetual community promise to cover the C# and CLI ECMA standards, which was generally seen as a good thing for Linux-centric fans of the C# language as well as for the Mono project. The FSF has responded now, and it isn't too impressed with Microsoft's move. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:54:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 48 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News Brandon L http://www.osnews.com/story/21847/Mono_LLVM_Compilation/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21847/Mono_LLVM_Compilation/ Mono from SVN is now able to use LLVM as a backend for code generation in addition to Mono's built-in JIT compiler. "This allows Mono to benefit from all of the compiler optimizations done in LLVM. For example the SciMark score goes from 482 to 610. This extra performance comes at a cost: it consumes more time and more memory to JIT compile using LLVM than using Mono's built-in JIT, so it is not a solution for everyone. Long running desktop applications like Banshee and Gnome-Do want to keep memory usage low and also would most likely not benefit from better code generation. Our own tests show that ASP.NET applications do not seem to benefit very much (but web apps are inherently IO-bound). But computationally intensive applications will definitely benefit from this. Financial and scientific users will surely appreciate this performance boost." Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:45:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21784/C_CLI_Under_Community_Promise_Mono_Split_in_Half/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21784/C_CLI_Under_Community_Promise_Mono_Split_in_Half/ We've already seen some heavy discussion on Mono and C# here on OSNews the past few weeks, as it became clear the patent situation regarding the ECMA parts of Mono was anything but faith inspiring. This issue seems to be resolved now: Microsoft has made a legally binding promise not to sue anyone who uses or distributes implementations of said ECMA standards. Following this news, Mono will be split in two; the ECMA standard parts, and the rest. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 129 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News PLan http://www.osnews.com/story/21753/Stallman_Warns_of_Mono_Right_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21753/Stallman_Warns_of_Mono_Right_/ We've had a lot of debates recently on the merits - or dangers - of Mono. We've had troubles with how Microsoft views Mono and whether or not everyone is safe using it, but we also had a public back-and-forth among Debian maintainers. During all this, Richard Stallman remained pretty mum on the issue, today he broke the silence on the FSF website. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:29:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 120 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21664/Why_Mono_Doesn_t_Suck/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21664/Why_Mono_Doesn_t_Suck/ A Mono developer responds to a request for "a calm presentation of why Mono is desirable, why it is not a threat, and why it should be included in Ubuntu by default" answering the three questions individually, then attempting to address general anti-Mono sentiment. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:55:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Mono Project 122 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News google_ninja http://www.osnews.com/story/21586/Mono_Moonlight_Patent_Encumbered_Or_Not_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21586/Mono_Moonlight_Patent_Encumbered_Or_Not_/ If there is one technology in the Linux world that ruffles feathers whenever it's mentioned, it's Mono, the open source .Net clone. Since .Net comes out of Microsoft, and has some patents encircling it, it is said to be a legal nightmare. Supposedly, you can obtain a "royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory" license from Microsoft regarding the patents surrounding Mono. iTWire decided to look at just how easy (or hard) it is to get such a license. Turns out it's kind of hard. Fri, 29 May 2009 22:32:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 94 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/21281/Using_MoMA_to_Port_From_Windows_NET_to_Mono_on_Linux/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21281/Using_MoMA_to_Port_From_Windows_NET_to_Mono_on_Linux/ "The Mono Migration Analyzer tool, or MoMA, helps users port Microsoft .NET programs to Mono, with the ultimate goal of porting Windows software to Linux. But is it really necessary? eWEEK Labs puts MoMA through its paces." Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:20:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21227/Mono_2_4_MonoDevelop_2_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21227/Mono_2_4_MonoDevelop_2_0_Released/ The Mono guys have released Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0. "We just released two big projects we have been working on for quite a while. Mono 2.4 is a much faster, scalable and tuned version of Mono, like you have never seen before. Major highlights from the previous release are documented in our release notes." Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20964/Moonlight_Hits_1_0_Milestone/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20964/Moonlight_Hits_1_0_Milestone/ Novell's Miguel de Icaza has announced on his blog that Moonlight has hit the 1.0 milestone. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight technology, a framework similar to Adobe's Flash. Silverlight has already been used during the Olympic Games and President Obama's inauguration for streaming those events across the internet. Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:05:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 71 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/20825/Mono_2_2_May_Overtake_NET_in_Some_Critical_Categories/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20825/Mono_2_2_May_Overtake_NET_in_Some_Critical_Categories/ The Mono Project releases version 2.2 this week with full support for SIMD extensions being one of the more interesting features (Betanews article). The extension allows SIMD code to be accelerated above and beyond the speed of past Mono and current .NET releases. Johnathan Allen from InfoQ impresses the significance of the latest Mono release in a blog entry. "It represents something bigger; Mono is outgrowing the standard. Mono is not just playing catch-up any more, it is trying to move past the CLR in many areas. And as an open source project, they can slip in new libraries at a much faster clip than Microsoft. Instead of trying to build everything themselves, they can simply pick up mature projects like Mono. Options or the collection library C5 and include them in the standard release." Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:04:25 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News Flatland_Spider http://www.osnews.com/story/20751/Open_Source_Mono_Framework_Brings_C_to_iPhone_Wii/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20751/Open_Source_Mono_Framework_Brings_C_to_iPhone_Wii/ Arstechnica reports that Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii. Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:54:56 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 74 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News Hiev http://www.osnews.com/story/20360/Mono_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20360/Mono_2_Released/ The Mono project has released Mono 2.0. As most of you will know, Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and other operating systems. The 2.0 release comes packed with new features, the main ones being the compiler upgrade to C# 3.0 with support for LINQ, as well as the inclusion of ADO.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0 and System.Windows.Forms 2.0. The release notes detail all the changes and new features. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:37:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 120 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News John Mills http://www.osnews.com/story/19745/Moonlight_Hits_the_Internet/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19745/Moonlight_Hits_the_Internet/ On his blog, Miguel de Icaza announced the first public releases of Moonlight. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, the company's Flash competitor. Moonlight is not yet free of bugs, though. Thu, 15 May 2008 13:38:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 118 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News gonzo http://www.osnews.com/story/19472/MonoDevelop_1_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19472/MonoDevelop_1_0_Released/ "The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 1.0. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux and Mac OS X. MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X and to maintain a single code base for all three platforms." Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:41:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News John Mills