Mono 2.0正式发布了

Mono官网：http://mono-project.com/
2.0 Release Notes: http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0

Mono Project Announces Mono 2.0 for Cross-Platform Microsoft .NET Development: http://www.novell.com/news/press/mono-project-announces-mono-2-0-for-cross-platform-microsoft-net-development/

Miguel de Icaza's ：http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Oct-06.html

Mono 2.0包括ADO.NET 2.0/ASP.NET 2.0/Windows.Forms 2.0/System.XML 2.0/System.Drawing/Linq/GTK#等类库的实现。这个release比1.x更为完整和成熟了。其中，C#编译器对C# 3的支持已经完整；标准库方面，WinForms 2.0的API已经完整支持，LINQ和ASP.NET的支持也比之前更为完善；执行引擎开始共享泛型代码后占用内存量减少了。

新版的主站界面也十分漂亮

几年前要是谁说CLI是跨平台的，以Mono来举例的话，或许会被强烈抨击Mono不现实，也就是在去年园子里就爆发过一场激烈的争论不要奢望.NET能够跨平台。但现在的Mono已不同于昔日的，可谓今非昔比。加上不断成熟的MonoDevelop，在Windows之外做CLI平台上的开发也越来越现实了。

Mono越来越接近产品状态了。只要不用P/Invoke，许多.NET应用都能as-is在Mono上运行了。贴一个Mono特性对比表：

Compiler Support	.NET APIs	Mono APIs
Mono's Open Source Compilers: C# 3.0 compiler. LINQ to Objects. LINQ to XML. Visual Basic 8 compiler. Open Source Compilers: Boo. Cobra. GNU's GCC with the CIL backend. Microsoft's IronPython. Jeroen's IKVM (Java on .NET). Microsoft's IronRuby. Phalanger (PHP on CLI). Commercial Compilers: ISE's Eiffel. Microsoft's C#. Microsoft's F#. Microsoft's VB.NET. RemObject's Oxygene (Object Pascal). And many more.	Core API: 2.0 core APIs. System, System.Xml. 3.5 System.Core. System.Drawing. System.DirectoryServices. System.Web.Services. Windows.Forms 2.0: Win32 driver. Quartz/OSX driver. Cairo/X11 Unix driver. ASP.NET 2.0: Core ASP.NET. ASP.NET AJAX. Apache and FastCGI integration. ADO.NET 2.0 plus providers for: Managed drivers: Postgresql, MS SQL Server, Sybase. Semi-managed drivers: Firebird, IBM DB2, Oracle, Sqlite. MySQL provides their own drivers.	GUI APIs: Gtk# (Unix, Windows, MacOS X). Cocoa# (MacOS X). Mono Core: Mono.Addins - Extensibility Framework. Mono.Cairo - Cairo Graphics Binding. Mono.Cecil - ECMA CIL Manipulation. Xml.Relaxng. Novell.Directory.Ldap C5 - Generics Library. Linux Specific: Mono.Posix/Mono.Unix. NDesk.DBus Other Ecosystem Libraries: Bit# - Bittorrent client/server library. Mono.Fuse - User-space file systems. Mono.ZeroConf - Bonjour stack. Mono.Nat - Network Address Translation. Mono.Upnp - Universal Plug and Play. Tao Framework - OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL and Cg bindings.

Compiler Support

.NET APIs

Mono APIs

Mono's Open Source Compilers: