It seems Latin and Greek when we say .Net on Linux… But its coming true. Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. Sponsored by Novell, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.
Mono, the open source development platform based on the .NET framework, allows developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with improved developer productivity. Mono's .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure.
Mono Feature Highlights
Multi Platform
Runs on Linux, OS X, BSD, and Microsoft Windows, including x86, x86-64, ARM, s390, PowerPC and much more
Multi-Language
Develop in C# 3.0 (including LINQ), VB 8, Java, Python, Ruby, Eiffel, F#, Oxygene, and more
Binary Compatible
Built on an implementation of the ECMA's Common Language Infrastructure and C#
Microsoft Compatible API
Run ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Windows.Forms 2.0 applications without recompilation
Open Source, Free Software
Mono's runtime, compilers, and libraries are distributed under OSI approved licenses and are available for dual-licensing
Comprehensive Technology Coverage
Bindings and managed implementations of many popular libraries and protocols
Other Features:
• LLVM support, to improve performance on server/computational loads.
• Continuations/Co-routine framework Mono.Tasklets (background info)
• LINQ to SQL using DbLinq.
• New Soft Debugger, integrated with MonoDevelop on Unix and OSX (background).
• System.IO.Packaging.
• csharp shell now supports auto-completion (press tab to complete)
• xbuild can now build most msbuild projects.
• Mono debuts a verifier and security sandbox (used by Moonlight).
• More complete 3.5 API coverage.
• This release includes Microsoft's open sourced ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime.
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