Running .NET on FreeBSD?

Dan writes "Interesting read on running .NET on FreeBSD. Chip Morton thinks this could be very beneficial to FreeBSD or any OS to have a fully functional .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime) environment. With over 9,000 files, and including some 1300 public classes to pore through, the Shared Source CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) can teach you quite a bit about the internal workings of the CLR. This relevant MSDN article discusses some of the things you can learn from the source code facsimile of the CLR, like how JIT compilation works. One thing that the CLI specification does not mandate is that managed code has to run on Windows. To prove this point, Microsoft built the Shared Source CLI to compile and run on FreeBSD Unix as well as Windows XP."

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A good community member!

[jsse]

MS has finally decide to give back to the community after all these years of plunder, loot and pilllage out of *BSD. Good work!

And why are we dignifying .NET ??

[mnmn]

.NET is dying. Its OS has been renamed Windows 2003 for a reason. Everyones building Javabeans for J2EE, backed by heavyweights like IBM and Oracle and Sun. Why is the most distant-from-Microsoft OS dignifying .NET now?

Next they will release the gcsp compiler.. for C#. sourceforge.NET will have a new meaning. Heck I even keep away from C++, building even GUIs with ANSI C 99 with function pointer arrays. Stick to traditions!