Developing on and for Linux

The following Linux operating systems are supported as a deployment target for .NET Core:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server
  • Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04
  • Linux Mint 17
  • Debian 8.2
  • Fedora 23
  • CentOS 7.1
  • Oracle Linux 7.1
  • openSUSE 13.2

If you want to choose a Linux operating systems that supports:

  • Visual Studio Code for development
  • SQL Server 2016 for an RDBMS
  • .NET Core for a platform

Then, you have the following two choices:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.12
  • Ubuntu 16.04

Get C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.