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Race to Linux Project Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hurry-up-and-blur-the-lines-so-we-can-have-a-choice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Internetnews.com The Race to Linux project was announced Wednesday at the recent Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. The challenge: port an existing ASP.NET application to Linux using any cross-platform tool of choice, including Mono, Grasshopper and PHP. (Mainsoft offers tools that let Visual Studio users build applications that run natively in the Unix, J2EE and Linux environments.) Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft stated: 'Linux is too big and ubiquitous to ignore.'"

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  1. I thought Vista by hungrygrue · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was Microsoft's "Race to Linux" project?

    1. Re:I thought Vista by tuxguy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Naw, Vista was Microsoft's 'race to Tiger' project ;)

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  2. MainMicrosoft by thedogcow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft stated: 'Linux is too big and ubiquitous to ignore.
    Mr. Cohen spelled Mirco wrong.

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    1. Re:MainMicrosoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, you spelled it wrong.

  3. First thoughts by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I first thought of porting "Hello World!" to linux.

    Then I realised that the .net version is 17mb compressed and covers numerous files and resource images.

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  4. I win! I win! by lisany · · Score: 5, Funny

    echo "Hello World!\n";
    ?>

  5. Re:Makes sense by gallondr00nk · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree. Microsoft should port Office 2000 to my Commodore 64. That'll seperate the men from the boys!

  6. Linux port of HJ-Split by wiresquire · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've recently completed a port of HJ-Split to Linux.

    So far, I've only completed a command line interface which I've called 'split' and 'cat'.

    It should be available on most distros. Let me know what you guys think!

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