The downlow on Mono

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Whither Mono?

Whither Mono? 03/13/2003 03:21 PM
A healthy software ecosystem has to create niches where commercial and open-source projects can thrive. Java does that, but is neither an open standard nor a first-class citizen of the Windows platform. The Common Language Infrastructure is, at least in theory, both. Whether theory will become practice is an important question that makes Project Mono worth watching. [Ful l story at InfoWorld.com] ...

Mono 1.0 available

Mono 1.0 available 07/01/2004 09:58 PM
Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET development platform, including the C# language. Installers are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, as well as source code.

What is Mono?

What is Mono? 07/01/2004 04:59 PM

What is Mono?

Mono is a comprehensive open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows IT and ISV developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with unprecedented productivity.

Mono’s .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure.

(spotter: Edd, who’s also done a bit of job shuffling)

ISV is “Independent Software Vendor” - bad enough having so many tech TLAs let alone business ones…

[RAW - Danny Ayers]

See! Even a Semantic Web guru like Danny Ayers can learn a new thing - epecially when it comes to commercial software development.

I first heard the term ISV while I was still working for Bally-Midway - in 1982 - before we started MacroMind. Throughout teh 80's it was a eord bantered around saught after and analysed - much like the installed base of GUIs or CD-ROMs.

Some things we take for granted. Other things we yearn for. Others things fade into the infrastructure - fulfilling the long dreamed "ubiquity" we all earn for.

There used to be something called the "CD ROM" market. Because of that - there were CD ROM business plans, CD ROM VCs, CD ROM IPOs and needless to say - almost an equal number of CD ROM bankruptcys.

But I am confidant we won't make the same mistake with the semweb - right?

We won't bog down into infintisimal discussions on which is the right way to do the same thing (from four available sceanrios) - right?

We won't meander off into esoteric discussions (and obligatory conferences) on weirdo schemas - shall we (NOT.)

And I'm confidant - that we won't end up like CD-I, 3DO, Amiga, Wink, Liberate, Respond, Kalieda, Taligent, Newton, [insert you own favorite bankrupt technology] - right?

Mono 1.0

Mono 1.0 07/01/2004 06:37 PM
A comprehensive open source development platform based on the .NET framework.

Mono 1.0 Is Out

Mono 1.0 Is Out 07/01/2004 01:40 PM
It's been a long time in coming, but Miguel de Icaza's baby, Mono 1.0, is out. Mono is an environment designed to allow developers to write .Net applications for Linux and Unix.

Mono 0.29

Mono 0.29 12/03/2003 06:25 AM

mono

mono 07/01/2004 09:03 AM
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mono goes 1.0

mono goes 1.0 07/01/2004 03:48 PM
pretty impressive that they've reached this milestone

Mono and SharpDevelop

Mono and SharpDevelop 05/17/2004 03:04 PM

Home / Mono: Joe pointed this out in a comment to an earlier entry, but just in case you don't monitor comments, I wanted to make sure everyone sees this. It's .Net for Linux.

The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by Novell to create a free implementation of the .NET Development Framework.

Mono includes a compiler for the C# language, a Common Language Runtime (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a set of class libraries. The runtime can be embedded into your application. It implements both ADO.NET and ASP.NET.

It gets better. SharpDevelop is a free IDE (GPL even), and that's where the strength of Microsoft's various platforms has always resided.

develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source (GPL), and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site.

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Why Mono is significant

Why Mono is significant 07/19/2004 11:20 AM
Mono is an open source implementation of the .Net development framework as developed by Microsoft and submitted to the ECMA standards authority. The project, which released version 1.0 last month, is significant in several ways: it offers the potential to unite the open source communities for Windows, Linux, and other platforms; it fulfills the niche for a powerful migration tool; it builds upon existing open source technologies such as Mozilla and Apache; and -- most importantly -- it illustrates the resolve of the open source community to rise to Microsoft's challenge.

Mono 1.0 available for download

Mono 1.0 available for download 07/03/2004 06:21 PM
Mac OS X is supported!

Easy Mono On The Mac

Easy Mono On The Mac 07/27/2004 09:16 AM
By Russ Miles, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Mono Project 1.0.1

Mono Project 1.0.1 08/10/2004 05:28 AM
An implementation of .NET for Unix, MacOS X, and Windows.

Presentaci�n de Mono en la UOC

Presentaci�n de Mono en la UOC 09/07/2004 03:54 PM

Mono Beta 1

Mono Beta 1 05/05/2004 02:10 PM

Get Started with Mono

Get Started with Mono 09/07/2004 11:37 PM
WebmasterBase Sep 8 2004 4:18AM GMT

Novell: Mono 1.0 now available

Novell: Mono 1.0 now available 07/01/2004 05:28 PM
Novell Inc. Wednesday announced the availability of Mono 1.0, the open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows software developers to build Linux and cross-platform apps. A community initiative sponsored by Novell, the Mono project, says Novell "makes it far easier to build and develop applications on Linux and other platforms, allowing developers to get software to market faster and more cost effectively."

Mono 1.0 Final

Mono 1.0 Final 07/01/2004 07:04 AM

Mono Project 1.0

Mono Project 1.0 07/01/2004 05:06 AM
An implementation of .NET for Unix, MacOS X, and Windows.

Eclipse + Mono

Eclipse + Mono 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
Once you create open source versions of a leading Java IDE (Eclipse) and the .Net Framework (Mono), what are the synergies of connecting the two? And if you're using JBoss, is three a crowd? Now there's a conversation-starter for this...

Mono WorkShop

Mono WorkShop 11/13/2003 05:26 AM
wxWindows?

Novell releases Mono

Novell releases Mono 07/01/2004 03:21 AM
.NET goes gold

Novell releases Mono 1.0

Novell releases Mono 1.0 06/30/2004 05:53 PM
After three years of development, open source developers now have an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s .Net application development platform, thanks to Novell Inc., which on Wednesday released version 1.0 of its Mono development platform.

Eclipse C# Perspective (mono/.net)

Eclipse C# Perspective (mono/.net) 07/13/2004 01:51 PM
Request for developer submitted

InfoWorld: Mono in Focus

InfoWorld: Mono in Focus 06/06/2005 12:05 AM
"Mono, which is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework, was in focus at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 on Thursday..."

OSS .NET implementation Mono 1.0
released

OSS .NET implementation Mono 1.0
released 07/01/2004 12:31 AM
Version 1.0 of Mono, the open source implementation of .NET, has been released. Mono allows developers to build cross-platform .NET applications on Linux or other UNIX-like systems.

Ars Technica Tours Mono

Ars Technica Tours Mono 07/15/2004 01:28 PM

Mono Beta 2 Released

Mono Beta 2 Released 06/03/2004 12:28 PM

Mono-man brings .Net to Linux

Mono-man brings .Net to Linux 07/15/2004 03:38 PM
ZDNet Jul 15 2004 8:04PM GMT

Mono Project Roadmap

Mono Project Roadmap 11/07/2003 02:02 AM
The Mono project started in 2001 as an effort to implement the .NET Framework to Unix. To bring both the new programming model based on the Common Language Infrastructure and C# as well as helping people migrate their existing knowledge and applications to Unix. Mono today supports a wide variety of operating systems, CPUs and a large chunk of the functionality available in the .NET Framework.

Mono and dotGNU: what's the point?

Mono and dotGNU: what's the point? 02/11/2004 09:36 AM
Opinion A bit controversial, this one

Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point?

Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point? 02/13/2004 12:00 PM

Reactions to the Whither Mono? column

Reactions to the Whither Mono? column 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Jacques Surveyer has posted a thoughtful response to my Whither Mono? column. His item, entitled "Mono is eerily like the disease," says in part:

Take a gander at http://gru nge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html and the number of languages that use the Java JVM - about 3-4 times as many languages that use .NET. But the really insidious notion is that .NET is "language neutral". As Visual Basic and Cobol developers have learned to their dismay - adopting a language to conform to the CLI/CLR/.NET Libraries means a number of Frankenstein-like cut and add operations. In the case of VB it is so bad that Microsoft's own enginers started to call VB.NET Visual Fred because it is so different from its predecessor, VB6.

Adds Kevin Altis, in an email quoted with permission:

We do have examples of other languages running in the JVM. Jython in particular works great, I don't know of any "scripting language" that works well in the CLR, only the early proof-of-concepts which aren't viable for real work. VB.NET is basically C# light, so maybe only one language works in the CLR.

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cat /dev/DiBona/brain: Considering Mono

cat /dev/DiBona/brain: Considering Mono 04/28/2004 02:30 PM
What are the implications behind Microsoft's support for Mono, and what are the repercussions for free software?

Mono Adds OS X Package

Mono Adds OS X Package 05/12/2004 06:53 PM
By O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Cocoa#: Mono + MacOS X

Cocoa#: Mono + MacOS X 08/13/2004 09:10 PM

Next Quark Xpress To Use Mono

Next Quark Xpress To Use Mono 05/10/2004 01:22 PM

Longhorn and Mono race for .net users

Longhorn and Mono race for .net users 09/17/2004 04:29 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 17 2004 8:10AM GMT

Mono Project 1.1.8 (Development branch)

Mono Project 1.1.8 (Development branch) 06/17/2005 05:01 PM
Mono Project is an Open Source implementation of the various ECMA and .NET framework technologies for Unix, MacOS X, and Windows. The project includes a compiler, a class library, and a CLI runtime engine.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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This release adds many bugfixes and performance and scalability improvements.
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Novell se une a Eclipse

Novell se une a Eclipse 02/16/2004 10:34 PM

Novell to Join Eclipse

Novell to Join Eclipse 01/22/2004 12:59 PM
Novell endorses Eclipse as "the integrated development environment of choice for all Novell products."

Novell Ditches UnitedLinux, Joins
Eclipse

Novell Ditches UnitedLinux, Joins
Eclipse 01/22/2004 11:39 AM
Internet News Jan 22 2004 4:11PM GMT

Eclipse download hell

Eclipse download hell 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

One of the many thing the Mozilla/Firefox team have got right is the fantastic ease with which the application can be downloaded. Visitors to www.mozilla.org are greeted with a nice big "Free Download" link, aimed straight at the version for their (automatically detected) operating system hosted on a mirror geographically close to their IP address. It's hard to think of any way they could improve on this.

Contrast the Firefox experience to that facing anyone who wishes to download the Eclipse IDE. By far the most common usage of Eclipse is as an intelligent Java development environment, but the front page of eclipse.org makes no mention of this, instead calling it "a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular" followed by a link to a white paper. If you wanted to be pedantic about Firefox you could call it a "development platform for XUL-based web-centric applications" (and maybe mention the embedded HTML parser in a foot-note) but doing so would be utterly counter-productive.

So, on to the downloads page, embedded in a late-90s era frameset (at least they have the decency to link to a new frameset for each page, thus keeping bookmarks functional). This is a list of mirrors, ordered alphabetically by the name of the company or organisation sponsoring the mirror with only the domain name of each site as an indication of its geographical location. The link to the infinitely more useful geographical list is hidden at the bottom of the page.

I'm in the UK, so I hit the link for the UK mirror service. I'm after the most recent stable release, which I happen to know is version 3.0.1. Here are my options:

I'm going to take an educated guess and go for R-3.0.1-200409161125 - after all, the R probably stands for "release", it's got the version number in it and it was last modified on the 7th of November which sounds about right for a recent release. I'm now faced with a list of files too long to show here, at least 7 of which have macosx-carbon in the filename. Here are the most likely contenders:

• eclipse-JDT-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 13.9M
• eclipse-JDT-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 24.6M
• eclipse-platform-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 23.1M
• eclipse-platform-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 51.1M
• eclipse-RCP-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 4.5M
• eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 16.3M
• eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz - 80.8M

I tried eclipse-platform-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz first, which gave me the IDE but not the Java editing features that I was actually interested in. Next I tried eclipse-JDT-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz, which gave me the plugins but not the actual application. It turns out that eclipse-SDK-3.0.1-macosx-carbon.tar.gz, my third choice, was the one that I needed.

I'm a huge fan of Eclipse: it makes Java development bearable (see the IDE Divide) but installing it is such a pain I nearly gave up! A note to the Eclipse guys: please, please take a look at how Firefox are distributing their application and see if you can apply some of the same techniques to Eclipse. Your users will thank you for it.

LinuxWorld: Novell joins Eclipse
consortium - Infoworld Staff

LinuxWorld: Novell joins Eclipse
consortium - Infoworld Staff 01/22/2004 03:21 AM
NEW YORK -- Novell used LinuxWorld Expo here to deepen its commitment to Linux and open source development by unveiling a handful of products and announcing it has joined the Eclipse consortium.

Novell releases first Mono beta

Novell releases first Mono beta 05/06/2004 06:49 PM
After months of delay, Novell expects to release a final version of its Mono software development platform by the end of next month, the company said, after releasing the first public beta of the Mono 1.0 software on a Web site earlier this week.

Novell Launches Mono (NewsFactor)

Novell Launches Mono (NewsFactor) 07/01/2004 03:46 PM
NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) has given Mono 1.0 its official launch. The company's open-source development platform, based on the .NET framework, lets software developers build Linux-based and cross-platform applications.

Novell announces availability of Mono
1.0

Novell announces availability of Mono
1.0 07/03/2004 02:17 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 3 2004 5:17AM GMT

Eclipse 3.0

Eclipse 3.0 06/21/2004 03:37 PM

OK - so get ready for this.

IBM now has it's own Java client side GUI technology - called SWT. There's a battle going on over two different approaches to Java client sides GUIs (between IBM and Sun/BEA) and IBM is using Eclipse for getting their's adopted. Now Oracle is getting involved. :-)

Even better - is all the other tsuff that come along with Eclipse - basically creating a client-side 'middleware' layer.

I've already met one major social networking play that's planning on building their free, open P2P system with SWT. Watch for even sexier deep linking new standards for all this stuff.

Thank you to IBM for sticking to their guns. The customer is always right. It's one thing IBM understands.

Eclipse

Eclipse 06/14/2004 12:48 AM
Still Alive

A Look at the Eclipse IDE

A Look at the Eclipse IDE 11/16/2003 10:43 PM
Eclipse is an open source integrated development environment. It is primarily developed by OTI (Object Technology International Inc.), an IBM company. OTI, founded by Dave Thomas, is a famous name in this industry. OTI is something like the Pixar of the object-oriented world: a legendary company still at the forefront of the technology and releasing hit after hit. No wonder that some at IBM consider the OTI acquisition to be the best technology acquisition ever made by IBM.

SDE for Eclipse 1.1 b

SDE for Eclipse 1.1 b 04/26/2004 02:13 AM
A UML plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Eclipse 3.0 RC2

Eclipse 3.0 RC2 06/12/2004 08:35 PM

I had been using Eclipse 3.0 RC1 for the past week but it was sluggish and I ran into a few hangups, so when I saw that Eclipse 3.0 RC2 was available, I got right on it.  Definitely better.  Startup is faster and shutdown takes only a second.  Nice.  I think I'll stick with this one until the final release is out which is due end of this month.  Eclipse bug count looks healthy although Platform UI and SWT team seems to be struggling a bit.

Downloading Eclipse took forever btw.  They have mirrors but mirrors are troublesome to use because it forces the user to find the package among the mirrors to download.  They should use BitTorrent IMHO and turn the mirrors into seeds.  BitTorrent needs to be more location-aware (actually route-aware) though.

Will Sun get behind Eclipse?

Will Sun get behind Eclipse? 07/15/2004 03:15 PM
Personal Computer World Jul 15 2004 7:37PM GMT

Eclipse 1.0

Eclipse 1.0 09/20/2004 09:26 PM
A simple and elegant theme.

More on Eclipse RCP

More on Eclipse RCP 07/11/2004 06:25 PM

I had problem building a working RCP application, so I put together the RCP Text Editor Example to see how to configure a RCP app.  If you want to build it yourself, instructions from the main RCP page at Eclipse site is below.  The page is actually a view into CVS, so I expect/hope the real main page will appear in the near future.

1. Download the RCP Runtime build from the Downloads page, and extract it to a folder such as c:\texteditor-example.
2. Download the RCP text editing component zip and extract it to the eclipse/plugins subfolder.
3. Download the texteditor plugin zip and extract it to the eclipse/plugins subfolder.
4. Replace the eclipse/configuration/config.ini file with the appropriate config file from the texteditor plugin. For example, on Windows, copy config_win32.ini file from org.eclipse.ui.examples.rcp.texteditor_1.0.0 plugin to eclipse/configuration and rename it to config.ini.
5. Run the eclipse executable: For example, on Windows, run eclipse.exe.

Step #4 is the key step while the rest are just downloading and expanding files.  After step #5, you should see a barebone text editor.  On Win32, the RCP text editor has disk footprint of 6MB and memory footprint of 28MB.  In comparison, NotePad2 has disk footprint of 540K and memory footprint of 4MB.  SWT apps I built before had substantially smaller footprints than the RCP app, but still significantly larger than native apps.

So what do we get for roughly ten times the footprints?  Plugins!  You can put together a fancy standalone IDE for Perl, Python, or PHP by packaging plugins from the EPIC, PyDev, or PHPEclipse projects with RCP.  You'll need to pour some sweats to glue things together because those projects are probably not fully RCP ready yet.

If you are not building an IDE, don't need IDE like level of extensibility, or there aren't many plugins useful to your product, you are probably better off skipping RCP and building on top of just SWT instead.

Eclipse + VS.NET

Eclipse + VS.NET 06/22/2005 02:59 AM

Visual Eclipse.NET is a skin that makes Eclipse look like Visual Studio .NET IDE UI. Not bad.

Eclipse OS

Eclipse OS 04/10/2004 02:05 PM
First Version Released

Eclipse 2.0

Eclipse 2.0 09/26/2004 11:31 AM
A simple and elegant theme.

Eclipse 3.0 RC1

Eclipse 3.0 RC1 06/04/2004 12:34 PM

Novell Targets .NET with Mono Beta
(NewsFactor)

Novell Targets .NET with Mono Beta
(NewsFactor) 05/07/2004 03:00 PM
NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is putting its Mono platform to the test with a beta release of the open-source version of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) .NET development architecture. The company wants to help Linux and Unix developers create cross-platform .NET applications.

Novell Ships Mono Development Tool

Novell Ships Mono Development Tool 06/30/2004 07:13 PM
TechWeb Jun 30 2004 11:30PM GMT

VSS Plugin for Eclipse

VSS Plugin for Eclipse 03/15/2003 07:15 AM
1.4.0 VSS Plugin released

Sun participation in Eclipse still
possible

Sun participation in Eclipse still
possible 06/30/2004 04:03 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- The on-again, off-again issue of having Sun Microsystems participate in the Eclipse open source tools initiative may soon be on again.

The downlow on Mono

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