[CS-FSLUG] LINUX COMMUNITY WANTS MORE SAY IN OS DIRECTION

[N. Thompson]

Norbert Bollow wrote:

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>N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
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>>So you're involved in some way with DotGNU then? ;-)
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>yes :-)
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>Since your comment sounds like you've heard of DotGNU before,
>I'll take the opportunity and ask you: How do you feel and
>think about this project?
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>(We need to get better at promoting the project and communicating
>about it's goals, and for that it's helpful to know how we're
>currently perceived.)
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I'd consider dotGNU's main competition to be mono so thats what I'll 
mostly be comparing it to. Right off the bat after first seeing the 
dotGNU project's web page I preferred it over Mono because it showed 
support for several different toolkits and platforms, right now mono is 
only showing GTK# for the most part and only seems to run on Linux thus 
keeping .net limited to Windows and Linux and defeating the notion of 
portable binaries. I'm a Qt fan so seeing only GTK# applications on the 
mono web site bothered me, also I have used BeOS before and consider it 
to be a much better operating system then what windows was like for the 
time when Be Inc was still alive, seeing a screenshot of dotGNU under 
BeOS earned it a few extra points with me.

I don't know any .net languages and haven't used either dotGNU or Mono 
for developing any software so I couldn't say which one is more complete 
or compatible with Microsoft's .net implementation so I'm afraid I won't 
be of much use there. If I were to learn C# however I'd probably give 
dotGNU the first try since I've never been very big on using IDE's 
anyway and if I'm going to learn a programming language I'm going to 
pick something that I can use on more then one or two operating systems.

Mono may have more media attention but that doesn't make it better, I 
know Ark Linux includes dotGNU for .net support instead of mono and I 
also know that dotGNU has gotten where it is with much less monetary 
support then mono which is being supported by Novell's deep pockets.

Right now however I think it would be nice to know what languages and 
versions of .net dotGNU is compatible with, I didn't see much on that on 
the web site but its possible I overlooked it by accident, especially 
considering that I didn't have that much time to look through the FAQ 
since its getting late here and I have school tomorrow.

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