Fedora Core 5 to come with Mono
Developers have a reason to cheer for. It has now been somewhat confirmed that the next major upgrade for the Fedora (Core 5) Linux distribution would come preloaded with Mono open-source development platform based on .Net. This was revealed by one of the systems engineer at Red Hat Inc. Christopher Blizzard on his Blog.
The news was again confirmed by the founder of the Mono project and Novell Inc. executive Miguel de Icaza. Icaza said: “Mono today was included in Rawhide, the staging area for the next release of Fedora Core.” Fedora is basically the community developed version of Red Hat Linux and very popular amongst Linux based developers.
Christopher Blizzard added in his Blog post on this interesting development: “We’re happy to enable another convenient method to use our core desktop platform. In this sense, it joins all of the other enabling tools we have, including pygtk and java-gnome for Java. It’s already been used to build some pretty neat apps, including Beagle, F-Spot, and Tomboy.”
About Mono project:
Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an ECMA Standard compliant (Ecma-334 and Ecma-335),.NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows based computers.
Mono’s C# compiler and tools are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the runtime libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the class libraries under the MIT License. These are all open-source licenses and hence Mono is open-source software. If you want to contribute source code to Mono you have to sign a copyright assignment giving Novell the right to re-license the code under other licensing terms.
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