.NET on Other Platforms
Two initiatives in the open source community have also nurtured the idea of bringing the .NET Framework to other platforms. These two projects are Mono (http://www.go-mono.com), which is spearheaded by Ximian, Inc. (http://www.ximian.com/), and DotGNU project's Portable.NET (http://www.dotgnu.org).
At the time of writing this book, Mono, for instance, was available in its 0.26 release and was available on a couple of Linux distributions, including RedHat Linux, Mandrake, and SuSE. The 0.26 release of Mono included the C# language compiler, CLR, and a set of class libraries including ASP.NET and ADO.NET. The project also provides an implementation of ASP.NET to run dynamic Web applications and Web services as an Apache ...
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