Developers of the Wine project, which develops open implementation API Win32, presented the release of the framework mono 6.14.0, offering an alternative open runtime compatible with the .NET platform. The Mono Framework 6.14.0 incorporated changes that have accumulated over 5 years and was the first issue prepared after Microsoft passed the development of Mono to the Wine community. The code Mono Framework is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The release is provided for Linux (X86, AMD64, ARM64), MacOS (AMD64, ARM64), and Windows (X86, AMD64), but binary assemblies have not yet been provided.
Under the name Framework Mono, tools are published that correspond to the code that was previously spread through the repository github.com/mono/mono and the implementing cross-platform runc. .NET. After the transfer of Framework Mono to the Wine project, the old Github.com/mono/mono repository was transferred to Microsoft to archival status. The Wine project also develops “Wine Mono” – the Framework Mono distribution designed for use in Wine instead of the Proprietary component .NET Framework (not to be confused with the open “Net Core”, distributed in recent years under the name “.NET”). Within the code base of the .NET platform, Microsoft continues to accompany “Monovm” – a more modern fork mono runtime which can be used instead of Coreclr.
Microsoft took over the Mono project after acquiring Xamarin in 2016. The Mono platform was founded in 2001 by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, who established the Ximian company for the development of their projects. In 2003, Ximian was sold to Novell, and the first Mono 1.0 release in 2004 was prepared as part of Novell. In 2011, after the restructuring carried out by Attachmate Corporation following the purchase of Novell, all developers of the Mono project were let go.
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