http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:41:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 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 http://www.osnews.com/story/19460/_The_Unholy_Quad_Miguel_Mono_Moonlight_and_Microsoft_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19460/_The_Unholy_Quad_Miguel_Mono_Moonlight_and_Microsoft_/ "Does GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza's backflip over the Novell-Microsoft deal a few days ago mean that he has finally been convinced that he is on a one-way path to nowhere? Has he realised that his own project, Mono, is actually putting GNOME on a development track that can leave it open to patent claims one day? And has he realised that creating Moonlight, a clone of Microsoft's Silverlight, (with which the company hopes to trump Adobe's Flash) is not going to advance the cause of free software one iota?" Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:28:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/19388/Another_GNOME-Mono_Discussion/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19388/Another_GNOME-Mono_Discussion/ A huge 'discussion' took place on the desktop-devel mailing list of the GNOME project about a possible replacement for TomBoy, the Wiki-like note taking application-thing-program-utility written in Mono - it being written in Mono was the prime reason for the whole debate, which started here, and only got considerably nastier later on. "It would seem that lately there are a lot of FUD-spreading trolls crawling out of the woodwork trying to frighten people into thinking that GNOME somehow depends on Mono. Let's take a look at their most widely repeated claims." Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:08:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News masalinger http://www.osnews.com/story/18430/Microsoft_Nurtures_Linux_Silverlight_Port/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18430/Microsoft_Nurtures_Linux_Silverlight_Port/ When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform technology. It appears as if the software giant is making good on that pledge: SD Times has learned that some of Microsoft's top developers have provided technical guidance for a Linux implementation of Silverlight. Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:11:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News rx182 http://www.osnews.com/story/18121/Implementing_Silverlight_in_21_Days/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18121/Implementing_Silverlight_in_21_Days/ "The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day - including weekends - to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight." Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:43:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News moleskine http://www.osnews.com/story/18020/Porting_Winforms_Applications_to_Mono/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18020/Porting_Winforms_Applications_to_Mono/ The amount of effort required to get an existing Winforms app running on Mono can vary greatly. Although many small apps will run on Mono unmodified, many apps will require some work on the developer's part to run smoothly on Mono. This guide will attempt to port a non-trivial open source application to document several of the issues a developer may run into while porting their app to Mono. Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:01:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Mono Project 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/17829/Silverlight_on_Linux_We_re_in_Says_Mono_Founder/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17829/Silverlight_on_Linux_We_re_in_Says_Mono_Founder/ "The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft touted the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, including Windows Mobile. Asked about plans for Linux, Microsoft executives have been non-committal, saying that it will depend on demand. But de Icaza, who is attending Mix, was able to commit without hesitating." Wed, 02 May 2007 19:17:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 106 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News WillM http://www.osnews.com/story/17556/De_Icaza_Pleads_for_Cooperation_Between_Mono_Net/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17556/De_Icaza_Pleads_for_Cooperation_Between_Mono_Net/ In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper Der Standard, Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsoft's .Net: "I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration." Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:44:36 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 110 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/17338/Linux_Breakthrough_for_Visual_Basic_Developers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17338/Linux_Breakthrough_for_Visual_Basic_Developers/ Windows developers can now port Visual Basic applications to Linux without modifying their code, using an open source project backed by Novell. The Mono project has built a compiler that lets developers code using Visual Basic inside Visual Studio or other preferred tools environments and run the Visual Basic code on non-Windows platforms without the time and cost of modification. Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:55:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 73 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/16465/Slides_from_Mono_s_Meeting/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16465/Slides_from_Mono_s_Meeting/ There was an official Mono Meeting Day a few days ago and now Novell has published their slides online in PDF form. Scheduling of upcoming versions of Mono are discussed among others. Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:34:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Mono Project 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/16443/Novell_Updates_Mono_Open-Source_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16443/Novell_Updates_Mono_Open-Source_Project/ Novell has announced the release of Mono version 1.2, a new version of the Mono project to create an implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework for open source. Mono 1.2 enhances the open-source effort and is a major step toward compatibility with the .Net Framework 2.0, Novell officials said. Novell announced the new version on Nov. 9 at the Microsoft TechEd Developers conference in Barcelona. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:18:37 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/16391/Novell-Microsoft_Miguel_de_Icaza_Responds/ http://www.osnews.com/story/16391/Novell-Microsoft_Miguel_de_Icaza_Responds/ Some interesting bits of his blog entry in which De Icaza replies to emails he has received concerning the Novell-Microsoft deal: "I do not know of any patents which Mono infringes. (...) Although I did not take part of the actual negotiations, and was only told about this deal less than a week before the announcement, I had been calling for a long time for a collaboration between Microsoft and Open Source and Microsoft and Novell. (...) Similar deals have been done in the past, in 1997 Microsoft signed a similar deal with Apple, and Apple used that agreement and the incoming monies to turn the company around. Sun signed a similar agreement with Microsoft in 2004, which at the time I realized enabled Sun to ship Mono on Solaris (which we already supported at that time)." Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:56:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 144 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News http://www.osnews.com/story/15681/Mono_1_1_17_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/15681/Mono_1_1_17_Released/ A new version of Mono has been released, and it contains many significant updates and bug fixes. " The Mono Basic compiler and the Basic runtime have been removed from the Mono distribution. A new compiler that is compatible with Visual Basic 2005 and a matching runtime are now part of a separate distribution. On this particular release, we are offering the basic runtime, but the compiler is not able to run completely on Mono yet." Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:14:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mono Project 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/64 News Tommy Borgen