Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Naughty =?UTF-8?B?Q+KZrw==?= Date: 5 Jan 2026 19:06:53 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10j9a1l$1toj$1@gal.iecc.com> <10j9vvr$23cp$2@gal.iecc.com> <10jb0is$172cb$2@dont-email.me> <679q2mx7o4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10jduat$22c54$1@dont-email.me> <10jelfq$2apo7$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dPrT9IalT/gdXYakWY7q3Q8UQjGllIVWAdjWjnH3RSqwLJugOW Cancel-Lock: sha1:aBXHT0rjfPegiIwy1hvDO6G9/Fc= sha256:7g/84ZIyHtIJ/VcKYUQqMdbWLsVv9jas7wWFE7hD9Qk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80530 alt.folklore.computers:233207 On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:24:58 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software) originated as an > independent implementation of (some of) .Net and C#, but apparently now > has some MS code (.Net Core) in the runtime. Mono has had a long, strange history. I played with it 20 years ago when you could do C# console programs on Linux but there were limitations. They must have been working on it but .NET Core was released in 2014, shortly after Ballmer 'retired'. Then there was the Xamarin chapter as it got passed around. afaik Mono still uses .NET Framework 4.8. Microsoft still does security updates but 4.8.1 was the last release. I see the dotnet SDK useful for developers that prefer working on Linux and that are working on ASP.NET solutions that will be deployed on cloud Linux instances. I don't know what the use case for mono is.