New Mono Roadmap, DotGNU 0.1 On CD

msh104 writes "The Mono project just released a nice status update for Mono. They also preview a roadmap for what the future will be like. It's quite nice to read if you want to find out if writing .Net programs for Linux will have a future for you. The Mono roadmap is available here." And gibbon writes "The DotGNU Project announced the availability of the DotGNU 0.1 CD-ROM release. It runs on many platforms and the CD contains documentation, packages for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and MS Windows. It is now possible to use the base class libraries and XML. System.Windows.Forms and the web services are coming along well, too. The announcement contains more information and download links."

Comments

Re:Does anyone use .Net?

[KDan]

I work for a large IT consultancy and we have a number of high-profile projects in the .NET stream. So yes, there is a market for it currently. In the future... who knows. But .NET is the sort of thing M$ is not going to let go off easily. They'll put a lot of money behind it, in marketting, development, etc. So in practice, even if it was a really crappy product, all that money behind it would make it a reality. I don't like .NET, but I would bank on it surviving for quite a few years.

Daniel

Re:.Forms

[Anonymous Coward]

My guess is it's because Miguel is responsible for writing Mono, and he's too busy trying to figure out how to implement a Mono version of the paperclip.