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Mono 1.0-beta3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the oneness dept.

steve_deobald writes "The Mono team just released Beta 3, the final beta before we see the 1.0 release candidate and final. Binary packages can be had for Red Hat, Fedora, and SuSE. Although not officially released, the new website is up and running. Also of note, MonoDevelop 0.4 was recently released, and has RPMs available for the first time."

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  1. Contrats to the Mono team by nelsonal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A year ago in January I brought Mono up to MS execs who were talking about the portability of .NET (except to Linux) and they stated point blank that the project would never finish. Good on all of you.

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  2. explain Mono by acomj · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've visited the website..
    I can't figure out if mono is.

    1) A c# compiler? (bytecode??)
    2) A api library the is kinda like MS C# libraries
    3) An api library that had been developed from scratch.

    Or any combination of the above.

    Does it compile and run native or does it use bytecode like java?
    Can I build cross platform apps in it? (like java was supposed to be)

    I'm looking for a cross platform application building toolkit. I run OSX and linux.QT/GTK and C are some options I'm looking at, so far it looks like java/eclipse is the way I'm leaning, but this looked interesting and worth considering.