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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. Re:Summary by billybob2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All native Windows applications will easily run on Linux, with Mono?

    I seriously doubt it. It would be a titanic effort to recreate the full API that M$ has created with its hundreds of billions of dollars. Instead, all Mono will achieve is to steal FOSS developers from other projects that strive to provide a programming language with a clean-syntax and a low learning curve, most notably Python. I think that would be a shame, as Python is farther along in terms of its syntax, speed, and availability of specialized modules.

    .NET on W$ also benefits from being able to programatically control with IIS and SQL Server, both of which have beginner-friendly GUI administrative tools and neither of which are available on Linux.

    I know a lot of .NET developers, and frankly what they like about it is the intuitive IDE, which provides code completion and which is GUI-based, allowing developers to do a lot of work simply by point-&-click. Incidentally, Trolltech is making good progress in this regard with the release of Qt Designer.