Novell and the
Mono project developer community announced the release of Mono version 1.0, an open source implementation of the .NET framework for use on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows system. See their
Release Notes, or go directly to the
download page. MonoDevelop 0.5 was also released. Elsewhere, Edd Dumbill
is talking about the metadata on the desktop using the Mono-based Beagle system (similar to Seth Nickell's Storage, Apple's Spotlight and originally, Be's BFS & Tracker).