I found this software on the web.
According its website, Mono is software which has the ability to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.

Woo...run .NET client and server applications on Linux!!?? What a cool software!!
This is good if you can not afford win2003 and you still like to use ASP.net. Then Mono is your saver. It is not for studing, it is for small business user. I think it will have some market share soon.

did anyone use it??
how does it preformance comparing to Microsoft .NET

Mono website
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Its the WORST thing ever made. I installed it on ComputingHost server and suffered a good downtime of 8 hours ever in history of Paid hosting. ITs still in beta and its success cannot be guaranteed.

They way it affects the server is very wierd. And you won't even realise that it is mono causing it. Be careful.

it's free, u can't always guarantee success.

xboxrulz

One time I had it. I was out of school for 3 and half weeks and all I could do was sleep. It made me beyond sleepy!

Plus it got to my liver and I was jaundiced. That was a little funny because I was all yellow and I've never seen pee so dark!

It was a mystery where I picked it up though.


-----We're actually talking about a software called Mono... not the disease... But thanks for sharing.-----szupie

This post has been edited by szupie: Oct 14 2005, 12:24 AM

aham ....if u were not joking ..i think we were talking about MONO platform ..to do opensource .NET thingies..

any ways..there is this other thing called grasshopper...which translates .NET code into J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) code . It looks cool too. check it out at http://www.mainsoft.com/

Nope ! Free means "I don't want money", does not mean 'does not work, will crash your server'.
I know a "free" product where the guy pays a lot of money for hosting his site, where you find really professional product. And the guy does not want money because he does the job for his own pleasure.
I am also currently using filezilla and vnc on a lot of home and professional systems, and I am quite satisfied. I pay for the professional usage, and I use it for free for my home usage. But I expect the software to be bug-free, or to have a supporting forum with people interessed enough and able to repair.
If an open-source software does not work, it should be known as not-working.
Of course, the name "mono" is self-explanatory, then don't be surprised it it's pure s..t !

lol, the meaning of free is opensourced, and maybe free as in no price, in my sense.

xboxrulz

well is very good just take a look @ the dif in the size for example!

@ the moment i just tested it not used it becase i have no need to use it in this time... but in the testing (using FC4) no problems with that.

Mono shall catch up sooner or later. Its backed by Novell i guess.
Anyway, I got Mono with my local programming magazine DVD and i could never figure out why it was not installing. I am not very good with Linux, and i am basically a windows developer. The notion of being able to write s/w on Linux in more or less the same way i do on windows (with .NET) made me hop on one leg and install Linux first and then try Mono. I installed Linux White Box distro (kernel-2.4.80) and tried installing the array of RPM's supplied. The place where i got screwed was, two RPMs were interdependant on each other, and both would ask for the other to be installed first.

Now how to tackle that sort of problem? One friend told me that its due to the kernel version. I haven't tried it on a newer kernel (I have Mandrake 10.1, which has kernel 2.6) since i wud first like to be sure about the actual cause of the problem so that i dun end up wasting time.

About my views on Mono, I would love to see free webhosting providers include ASP.NET as a server side scripting language in their arsenal as soon as possible. Maybe only Mono can make that dream come true... so waiting eagerly for its full fledged release.

try doing this rpm -ivh (rpm prefix)*

example:
rpm -ivh amarok-*

that should resolve it. Also, to make life easier, please use a 2.6 based distribution as the 2.4 Linux kernels are outdated and not really supported.

xboxrulz