Mono Ships ASP.NET server

Miguel de Icaza writes "We have just released the new version of Mono the new version includes a working version of ASP.NET. The release includes a sample web server that "hosts" the ASP.NET runtime (it can be hosted anywhere, for instance in Apache, with mod_haydn). The web features of ASP.NET would not be very useful without the support of a backing database. The new version of Mono includes database providers for Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase, ODBC, OleDB, Gnome Data Access, SqLite, MySQL and of course, Postgres. The C# compiler is now 37% faster due to some nice optimizations on the JIT engine and in our class libraries. You can use it to develop GUI applications using Gtk#. Screenshots for mPhoto and the GUI debugger (which can debug both JITed apps and native applications). "

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Sort of off-topic, but...

[kir]

...what the heck is .Net? Now, before you drill me as a moron or a troll, hear me out.

I've some vague understanding about what .Net is and what it is supposed to provide (XML web services... OK.), but can anyone point me to a good primer on the matter?

I've never even tried to keep up with .Net (WTF kind of name is that anyway?). I've got enough to keep me busy without having to worry "the next big thing".