About Mono

2015-03-19


When people said .NET on Linux, we know it was about Mono.

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At the beginning Mono was just a small open source project which tried to help .NET application to run on Linux, Now Mono becomes to a platform, it supports multiple language such as C#, VB, Java, Python etc.

Mono is the open source development platform based on the .NET framework, allows developers to build cross-platform applications which can be running on Windows, Linux or other platforms.

There are several components that make up Mono: C# Compiler, Mono Runtime, Base Class Library, Mono Class Library
Mono supports following platforms:

Linux 
Microsoft Windows 
Mac OS X 
BSD 
Sun Solaris 
Nintendo Wii 
Sony PlayStation 3 
Apple iPhone 
Android 
x86, x86-64,  
IA64 
PowerPC 
SPARC (32) 
ARM 
Alpha 
s390, s390x (32 and 64 bits) 
and more