Posted on 04/05/2015 8:26:58 AM PDT by dayglored
Version 4.0.0 of Mono, the FOSS implementation of the .NET Framework, has been released.
This is the first release of Mono that replaces various components of Mono with code that was released by Microsoft under the MIT license. Microsoft itself is working towards .NET Core: a redistributable and re-imagined version of .NET, which has two code drops: CoreFX and CoreCLR.
Mono at this point continues to provide an API that tracks the .NET desktop/server version. This means that most of the Mono code that has been integrated from Microsoft comes from the ReferenceSource code drop.
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Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes - http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/
The Microsoft .NET Framework is a major piece of software that spans many different software languages and provides support for a huge range of functions. It is, however, a largely proprietary product, running primarily on Microsoft Windows.
The free and open source Mono project provides a standards-compliant .NET-compatible framework and set of tools, with the goal of running Microsoft .NET applications on platforms other than Windows.
Pinkeye ver 3.11a rev 2, released soon afterward...
I’m headed out to lunch for a little while but I’ll be back to the thread this afternoon. A Joyous Easter to All!
Mono is the disease you got in high school and everyone laughed at you. Just how bad is the 4.0 version?
Had mono in HS. Most sick I’ve ever been. Thought I was gonna die.
> Mono is the disease you got in high school and everyone laughed at you. Just how bad is the 4.0 version?
4.0 is the antibiotic-resistant version. Real trouble! LOL
How about making W/98se open source?!
It's a cool idea, but IMO it probably won't happen. Too much has changed in 16 years and it's hard to imagine people willingly putting in the work, gratis, to bring it up to snuff. It would be terribly non-securable, and the libraries would all be missing to support any browser past IE4, meaning largely useless in the Internet Age.
And forget running any application written or released after 2003 on it. That's 12 years.
That said, it would show really Good Will on Microsoft's part to do so. It's not like they would be losing any revenue.
After all, 98SE (and all the other non-NT releases) wasn't an operating system -- it was an application that ran over MS-DOS. And, yes it took over the system and largely replaced DOS' calls with its own, but it was still not a bootable operating system. Unless you want to be gracious and call MS-DOS a glorified boot loader.
I really loved 98SE. It was with great reluctance that I gave it up and switched to Win2000. But having switched to the NT line, I never looked back. Well, that's not quite true... I have 98SE in a VM for those days when I need to run some ancient program and read its data off a floppy diskette...
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