Mono Archive
Mono 0.18 is Released
From the announcement: "The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this release is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the runtime, class libraries and C# compiler have been fixed." Additionally, Qt# (a C# language binding for the Qt toolkit) 0.6 was released too.
The Penguin Takes Flight
After creating a program that makes Linux as easy to use as Windows, Miguel de Icaza is trying to make it just as simple to produce open-source versions of thousands of new Windows applications. So why isn't Microsoft worried? Read the article at Business2.0.
Open-source .Net takes Shape
"Builders of the Mono open-source development project released an update on Tuesday that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems." Read more at ZDNet.
Mono 0.17 Released
Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the release notes for a more detailed list. Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET) which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple test web server to host asp.net has been released as well. This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
Overview of DotGNU Portable .NET
GNU-Friends has an overview of Portable .NET, a key part of the DotGNU Project: "DotGNU aims to provide a complete alternative for all aspects of webservices, including user authentication (Virtual Identities), service directories, access, and security (SEE), as well as support businesses interested in using the Free DotGNU model." Additionally, the Mono Project released slides of their presentations.
GTK-Sharp 0.5 Released
O’Reilly: Open-source .Net Inches Closer to Fruition
"The open-source effort to create a freely available version of Microsoft's .Net development environment is set to take a leap forward Wednesday, when developers from the effort known as the Mono Project detail its latest accomplishments at a conference dedicated to open-source software." Read the report About the O'Reilly open source conference at InfoWorld.
Interview with Miguel de Icaza
To understand the vision behind the Mono project and how it fits with .NET, .NET Magazine editor in chief Patrick Meader talked with Miguel de Icaza, cofounder and CTO of Ximian.
Mono 0.12 Released
Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft.NET Framework, and ships with a C# compiler, a runtime engine (with a JIT on x86) and a set of class libraries. Mono is known to work on a number of platforms: x86/Linux, x86/Windows, x86/FreeBSD; sparc/solaris; linuxppc/linux; strongarm/linux. Download version 0.12, or read its release notes.
Miguel de Icaza on Just About Everything
"Miguel de Icaza is a nice guy in a multitude of senses: He's warm, friendly, and open -- sometimes that openness has cost him, as recently when it was reported that he had said the GNOME desktop would be moved to Mono, an effort by Ximian to create an open source version of Microsoft's .NET platform." Read the interesting interview with Miguel de Icaza at LinuxAndMain.com
Miguel de Icaza Explains His Gnome .NET Plans
When Miguel de Icaza, the founder of Gnome and Gnumeric among other things, told TheRegister some days ago that he would like to see Gnome 4.0 to be based on Mono (a free .NET re-implementation), a lot of people thought that he is "selling" Gnome to the Microsoft's "evil .NET" technology. Miguel says that it ain't so and he has written a long reply answering to both the Gnome community and RMS himself. Miguel explains that Mono is just a free re-implementation of a proprierty technology (that Microsoft pushes enough to make it the 'de facto' standard in the years to come, so the Unix world should catch up), just as Linux was a free re-implementation of AT&T's proprierty UNIX, therefore people should look deeper to the facts before they start complaining without having done their research first.