Fedora Core 5 includes Mono

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 10, 2006 @01:29AM 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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Re:Easily run by adolfojp · 2006-01-10 02:08 · Score: 4, Informative

There is a WinForms compatibility layer in the making. Its first release will handle the WinForms of the 1.1 .net specification. Mono will be forced to play catching up with this GUI framework and it uses the compatibility stack instead of the ECMA compliant one.

If you want to make Linux applications using Mono I strongly recommend using GTK#. Beagle and F-Spot use GTK#.

Cheers,
Adolfo