Today's Adventure: Mono - .NET for Linux

Today, I had the feeling of the need to learn a cross-platform language. I am planning to re-learn and re-study wxwidgets,pyQt or Java. But since I had already some foundations on C# I had decided to give Mono a try. (I really love C#, it's a very beautiful language along with Python)

I downloaded an OpenSuse Linux VMWare image from the Mono's main site and read some stuffs to how to get started. Using Sun's VirtualBox to load the OpenSuse, I was able to run my .NET application with no-recompilation at all!



Here is the same application executed on Windows XP:


I'm so happy that it worked! This will be a very big advantage for me since I will be able to develop .NET apps using Free Compiler (Express Editions) on Free OS (Linux distros) :)

More information on Mono here: http://mono-project.com/