Major Mono rev ships

Novell announced the availability of its dual-licensed cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's .NET development framework. Some five years in the making, Mono 2.0 adds "full" compatibility with .NET 2.0, improves performance and stability, and introduces an analytical tool for .NET-to-Linux migrations, says the Mono project. (Click for larger view of F-Spot, a Mono-based photo manager for GNOME Linux desktops) Mono is a from-scratch implementation of Microsoft's .NET API and application development framework. Novell acquired the technology with its 2003 purchase of Ximian, a start-up co-founded by Mono project instigator Miguel de Icaza. Mono 2.0 arrives some five years after the release of Mono 1.0, which shipped in early 2004. Significant interim releases include... [read full story]