Ximian announced the launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.

Mono includes: a compiler for the C# language, a runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure and a set of class libraries

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** Sep 21, 2001

A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot

** Sep 19, 2001

Paolo has written a section on Porting Mono to othre architectures.

** Sep 18, 2001

Mono 0.7 has been released (runtime engine, class libraries and C# compiler). Check the Mono 0.7 announcement for details

** Sep 17, 2001

Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application. The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program here

Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.

** Sep 10, 2001

Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.

** Sep 5, 2001

The MCS compiler can compile the sample Hello World application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!

This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see August 28)

** Sep 4, 2001

Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.

** Aug 28, 2001

.NET Hello World is working under Mono! The latest snapshots will let you run it.

Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions, performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll

Good work Mono team!

** Aug 23, 2001

Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they are available here: http://csgl.sourceforge.net

** Aug 22, 2001

New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been released. Check the 0.6 announcement.

** Aug 20, 2001

A new Compilation service has been made available by Derek to allow people without access to the .NET SDK

** Aug 3, 2001

Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will run every night at 10pm Boston time.

** Jul 29, 2001

Mono Runtime 0.5 has been released. Check the release notes

** Jul 25, 2001

The slides for my presentation at O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention

** Jul 22, 2001

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 22-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

** Jul 19, 2001

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 19-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

** Jul 17, 2001

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 17-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

Do not forget to check out the updated FAQ.

Got Sean's new Class Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and we are now keeping better track of contributors.

** Jul 15, 2001

Another release of Mono is out, check the Mono 0.4 Release Notes. Get it here.

** Jul 14, 2001

A new release of the runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it here

** Jul 12, 2001

I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when Mono has nothing to do with it. I finally wrote something.

** Jul 9, 2001

Project launched.

** O'Reilly

Brian posted a story on O'Reilly Network .NET