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Fedora Core 5 includes Mono

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fedora-core-six-will-be-in-stereo dept.

cyberjessy writes "Surprise! The Fedora Core 5 Release will include Mono in the distribution, in spite of Red Hat's opposition. In addition to the Mono runtime, it will also include Mono applications like Beagle and F-Spot. Is the Linux community finally ready to accept Mono? Mono is becoming increasing important due to Windows Vista, which has WinFX (the next .Net Framework) as its core API. This will mean that in future, all native Windows applications will easily run on Linux, with Mono. Will Mono achieve what WINE could not?"

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  1. Heh. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    First time the "Kissing Disease" has ever been accessable to geeks.

    One the one hand, I'm all in favor of open source alternatives, and it adds a lot to linux to be able to run .Net apps, but I can't help but think we'd be better off with another language. .Net is so freaking encumbered.

    Still, it'd be nice to be able to host .Net apps on Linux servers...

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  2. What I want to know is ..... by ajs318 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..... why wasn't the Open Source clone of the "C#" programming language called "Db" ?

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