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More on Mono, Novell

Submitted by Eugenia on Fri, 2004-07-16 05:55. Mono
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In light of the recent Mono 1.0 release there is a lot of coverage on Novell and Mono lately. NewsForge recently talked with Erik Dasque, the senior project leader for Mono, about the release of 1.0, the controversy and criticisms encountered along the way, and the plans for the future, while Miguel de Icaza spoke to CNET News.com shortly before the company began shipping Mono version 1.0. Elsewhere, InfoWorld posted an article about the "new face" of Novell.

Re: More on Mono, Novell

Submitted by Nyda on Sat, 2004-07-17 09:13.

Filemanager?! You don't asociate exe files with wine usually. On Linux you will normally use the binfmt_misc kernel extension to handle this for you. This way it works from terminals as well as from filemanagers.

(This does not work on other platforms, but at least wine executables won't run on a non x86 either).

You just have to tell the kernel to open windows executables with mono. Mono will then pass the exe on to wine if neccessary. This part works very well.

Apart from that, I don't thing .exe looks any more ugly than .jpg or .mp3 . Face it, we already use file extensions everywhere. Not using Mono because it uses file extensions is stupid.

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