Mono Project Releases Beta 1

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 4, 2004 @11:51PM from the solo dept.

AArnott writes "Ximian has just released beta 1 of its open-source implementation of Microsoft .NET platform. Mono allows .NET applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows. Mono 1.0 is slated for release on June 30, 2004." sjanes71 adds "The first 'beta' always gets heaps of attention, and this is the first of three planned for the Mono project. Some of the new features touted for this release that updates Mono v0.31 include a faster interpreter, a global assembly cache, support for the StrongARM and HPPA platforms, generics support in the VM and C# compiler and an early alpha of System.Windows.Forms. C# and .NET is Microsoft's answer to Sun Microsystem's Java platform and Project Mono aims to create the Open Source, cross-platform version of Microsoft's new development environment."

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the missing link. by nappingcracker · 2004-05-05 00:02 · Score: 1, Troll

maybe now i'll be able to convince my employer to switch!

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Re:This is exciting, at least for me. by minus_273 · 2004-05-05 05:59 · Score: 0, Troll

MS opensource .net for mac an linux is here. Stop spreading FUD.

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