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A Bare-Bones Linux+Mono+GUI Distro?

Posted by timothy on from the essentials-only dept.

nimble99 writes "I am a computer software engineer, focused mainly on the Windows platform — but most of my development time is spent in .NET. I would like to move my .NET development to Linux in the form of Mono, in an attempt at building a media-center type of device. All I require, is a base operating system with simple hardware support, Mono, and a window manager that (preferably) does nothing but act as a host for mono applications. Is this available? I dont know a lot about Linux, so I thought I would ask if there is already something like this available. Obviously a 'Mono Operating System' would be the cleanest solution, but a similar thing could be achieved with the barest minimum of Linux distros right?"

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  1. Don't. by Alex+Belits · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you want to use Linux, don't plan to develop for it in a Windows-bound way, and don't expect Linux developers to support Windows infrastructure on their system.

    Mono is Miguel's pet project, and no one outside Novell and Microsoft cares about it.

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    1. Re:Don't. by Alex+Belits · · Score: 0, Troll

      That will never happen.

      Not that lack of applications made by .net-only programmers would be a great loss on any platform.

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