Novell's Mono gets faster

I dare say you'd have declared the Blackdown Java project equally fatuous, at the time, then would you? If open source projects (in general) and porting projects like Blackdown and Mono (in particular) have shown anything, over the years, it is that proprietary vendors will do sweet FA about real interoperability, until goaded by harder working volunteers. Perhaps before belittling the efforts of others, and deeming them 'pathetic' you should reflect on that? What software have you written, in the last ten months, that so damned spectacular?

Who needs .NET on Linux? Well, I suspect people who don't want to have to pay for a full-out "Windows Platinum-Premium-Longwanger-Percore-Ultimate-Goldstandard-Enterprise-Business-Foundation-2008-Server-Edition" software license to run their .NET applications on? People who built an expensive .NET application, during the rich times of this decade, but now find they would need 10 grand's worth of Windows serevr to run it, and that 2 gigs of that server's memory, and 4 of it's cores, would be used up, simply so that the 'sever' opperating system could display it's wndows, sideways on, to the system administrator. People who don't want to have to reboot a 'server' because of a patch to a critical flaw, discovered in a media player. People who have identified that running the same application on a virtual linux server with one tenth the system resources, and one tenth the electricity bill, will do the job just as well?

"Anyone wants to do some coding???"

Well, not you, obviously - but you do like your punctuation marks! <- (note: one exclamation mark does not lessen the exclamatory nature of this last statement)

Love: I really love this, as run my windows machine. Especially when I have programs that's on .Net, but our IT admin don't let any .Net installed... Thanks Novell, you really save my day!

Hate: Who would want .Net on anything other than windows!?

Who the hell needs .net on Linux ???
If we need .net/mono then we probably need IIS. Visual Studio etc. ported to Linux as well.
Anyone wants to do some coding ??
Those companies like Novel are pathetic. They should spend some money and create new technologies on Linux and for Linux. They should creative and competitive so others feel the heat. Instead they just copy someone else's stuff. And who's stuff? Microsoft. Pathetic !!!

Mono 2.4 is faster? It's about time! According to The Computer Language Benchmark Game, Java (Server VM) is about twice as fast as Mono 2.2!

Mono is a cross platform .NET implementation - aimed primarily at Unixes (including your beloved OS X, Nick), but you can even install mono on Windows, if you wanted (if you wanted to test your ASP.NET code on a copy of Windows Home, for instance).

So, while Novell's ultimate aim, in funding Mono, is to push for easier deployment of .NET applications onto (preferably SuSE) linux servers, the Mono project, as a whole, has much wider aims.

beside Microsoft compatibility stack, mono also provides Linux/GNOME development stack with Gtk#, database libraries, mozilla libraries and others :)