Given all the sound and fury around recent Novell and Microsoft partnership, and all of the entanglements that would ensue, not much was said about the recent Mono update. Mono, a project sponsored by ...

The open-source community, through Linux software development company Ximian, has embarked on a development effort to bring Microsoft's .Net platform to Linux. Called the Mono Project, this effort ...

Who said .NET only runs on Windows? In this article we take a look at DotGNU and how you can get .NET applications running on Linux and other flavours of Unix. One of the disadvantages of using Visual ...

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It's a big day for Microsoft and its (soon to be even larger) cadre of dedicated developers: Starting today, Microsoft is making the core parts of its .Net framework open-source, and cross-platform on ...

Satya Nadella's rapid reinvention of Microsoft continues. In yet another bid to make up lost ground in the long march to the future of computing, Microsoft is now open sourcing the very foundation of ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...

Specifically, .NET 6 is being bundled with Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu Chiseled Containers, the latter being Linux container images that improve security by minimizing services and omitting a package ...

Microsoft today announced plans to open source .NET, the company's software framework that primarily runs on Windows, and release it on GitHub. Microsoft also unveiled plans to take .NET ...