"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> C# 3.0 support coming for Mono
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> | Mono, Novell's open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net
> | technology, will get support for version 3.0 of the C# programming
> | language developed for the technology, project leader Miguel
> | de Icaza said.
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> http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6150119.html?part=rss&tag=2063-10795_3-0&subj=news
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> Related:
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> Who would use Mono now?
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> | With Java available as default in every Linux distribution (made
> | possible by the move to GPL) I think Java has a great future on
> | Linux. Better integration into the Gnome and KDE desktops would be
> | nice, but I guess that is just a matter of time now that it's
> | Open Source.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | You can call it FUD, but for me it's a question of investing my time
> | and energy in technology that are and will be available on the
> | platforms I use (Mac OS X and Linux). I don't trust Microsoft and I
> | don't trust Novell anymore either. Who knows when Microsot will bring
> | out it's patents and kill Mono use outside of Novell? I think .NET is
> | good if you want to develop for Windows only. For cross platform
> | development I would not use it - I would go for Java.
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It is comforting to know that an alternative to Java does exist, however.
Mono seems to work quite well and is apparently being professionally
maintained and extended. As to cross-platform, there is really nothing to
achieve in that regard. It is far better to optimize for the extensively
used platform, Windows, that to waste time and effort on generating
workstation/client applications on a server OS that will hardly ever be used
for such applications.
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> http://labora.harnvi.net/?p=37
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> Red Hat Doesn't Want Mono
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> | There are a lot of great new programs and innovations expected
> | in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Novell-led Mono project isn't
> | one of them.
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> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3644981
Red Hat may be seen to be cursing the darkness rather than lighting any
candles.
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