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Mono & SourceGear Move Forward

Posted by Hemos on from the partnering-together dept.

miguel writes "The Mono project keeps evolving and is quickly becoming a mature platform for running .NET applications on Linux. SourceGear and Ximian have entered into a partnership to make their .NET-based Vault client software available to Linux and Unix users by implementing the missing web services support in Mono. The formal announcement is here and a developer overview is here. OpenLink has also contributed the functionality to turn Wine into a library that Mono is using to implement the System.Windows.Forms namespace. Another recent progress bit is the fact that Mono can run Eclipse with the IKVM Java VM for .NET"

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  1. !fefwefwefwfwefw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp but who cares

  2. More WINE-ing by poptones · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    So it's another GPL project tied to WINE and the MonSter that ate Redmond?

    I wish I had the skills to craft a better deskptop for linux, because it sadly needs it. And every time I see some neat new desktop I look carefully, hoping to find it uses some wonderful new system that does away with the hideous kludge that has become of both Gnome and KDE and X11 in general. I hope because I want a *nix desktop that will carry me into the new millenia feeling like an astronaut and not a WWI aviator held in the sky with toothpicks and rubber bands. I keep hoping that I won't have to switch form one proprietary system (windows) to another (apple) just to get all this.

    I have the will to switch, but I don't have the skills to craft a better desktop. And, apparently, neither does anyone else in the open source community.