Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 17:25 UTC, submitted by Mitarai
"Novell today announced the beta program for Mono 1.2, which now includes support for Microsoft Windows.Forms to more easily port .NET client-side applications to Linux. Other enhancements in this beta release include additional platform and hardware support, virtual machine upgrades, and enhanced Java support, as well as significant performance, memory consumption and stability improvements." And on a related note, Novell also released the code to the server side of iFolder.
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Microsoft has something called project ROTOR. If I remember correctly, it runs on FreeBSD and on Mac OS X.
However, project rotor is a very small subset of the .NET Framework and it is severly restrictive on its share source license.
I believe that you mostly can use it in Academia and not commercially. I am no longer a Microsoft employee, so I would not be the best person to give answers about MS intent on that project.
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Novell, and the rest of the mono community have deliver what we have today at an amazing pace when put in perspective. There are 23 permanent Novell mono developers and about 230+ regular contributors to the mono project. We support 5 distinct operating systems and over 7 CPU architectures, that does not include all the distributions on Linux and Windows variants alone! Compared that with Microsoft and .NET. They literally have thousands of people that work on .NET between development, product and program management, QA, marketing, etc.
http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms
There is a lot of .NET 2.0 functionality in mono already. For example, a very capable implementation of generics was available in mono quite a few months before .NET Framework 2.0 was finally released to the general public.
C# 3.0 spec is handled by ECMA, so members of the Mono team like Miguel de Icaza are responsible for contributing directly overseeing its progress just as the other members like HP, Intel, Microsoft, etc. This means that C# 3.0 is not holding mono up, mono is actually one of the reasons C# has progressed to 3.0