Good to know. I haven't had time to look into it.
Not a surprise that they are progressing with it.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Tim O'Guin <[email protected]> wrote:

> While there aren't any distro packages built for Linux yet, there is a
> working build for Linux.
>
> I haven't looked into what all does or doesn't support, but the initial
> support is there.
> On Feb 9, 2015 5:27 PM, "Csaba Toth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Just to clarify things. As far as I know, Linux at this point won't run
>> *full* .NET natively still (I'll try to clarify what I mean later).
>> Mono is the project which does that at this point still. The fact that
>> the .NET Core and other core components of the .NET eco-system (most
>> recently the .NET CLR) went open-source on GitHub, just gives the
>> _possibility_ of a full fledged or much better Linux integration. You won't
>> find .NET native Linux packages for your favorite distro right now. That's
>> when I think it can be said that it's fully cross platform (hence, that
>> would be my clarification). Like you can install a Java JDK today.
>>
>> It'll certainly help a lot to the Mono project. I'm curious what other
>> project will benefit.
>> I'm a little skeptic about various big companies who want to support
>> Linux. Maybe one day Microsoft will be the savior of Linux?
>> A couple of years ago it was very promising how Valve got behind Linux
>> for example, I hoped more results than what we could finally see (although
>> I believe they spent a lot of effort!). It looks like Linux still needs
>> some more support to reach a critical mass. Companies are reluctant, and
>> sometimes backing out.
>>
>> Microsoft also has many Open Source Software Labs across the globe.
>>
>> Microsoft's Linux support in Azure is another topic and more or less
>> independent of the recent .NET "open sourcing". Azure rather started as a
>> PaaS (from top) and moved to IaaS from there. I remember back around 2012 I
>> already did a test with an Azure VM hosting Tomcat and J2EE app. As an IaaS
>> provider they have to pick up Linux.
>> The latest trends are the container formats (like Docker). Microsoft has
>> a very good effort to make sure that .NET based solutions will function and
>> integrate well into various containers. That doesn't necessarily require
>> .NET to be open source, but it can help the cause.
>>
>> Also, if we stay on Windows and look at IIS, the recent generations of
>> ASP.NET platform also moving towards being platform independent.
>>
>> I don't want to promote anything here. But I'm just as familiar with the
>> Microsoft eco-system as the Linux or Java one, and I'd like to let you know
>> my view of the topic.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Csaba
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Allen Minix <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Knew about Azure... didn't realize that .net would run natively on Linux
>>> now.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Tim O'Guin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, they do.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
>>>>
>>>> Azure has also supported Linux servers for a while now.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon Feb 09 2015 at 10:59:05 AM Allen Minix <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They have .net for Linux now?  Who knew!
>>>>>
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