14 DAY TRIAL // We announced last week that the release schedule of the upcoming Fedora 23 Linux operating system has been published and that the distribution might arrive on October 27, 2015, if everything goes according to plan and no unexpected delays occur during the development cycle.
Today, we have the pleasure of informing our readers about the inclusion of the latest Mono 4.0 open source implementation of the .NET programming language for GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in the upcoming Fedora 23 Linux distribution.
Fedora devs decided that Mono 4.0 is a good addition to the distribution, as it will allow users to run cross-platform applications written in Microsoft's .NET framework 4.5, as well as to brag with the latest open source software technologies.
"Fedora aims to showcase the latest in free and open source software - we should have the most recent release of Mono 4.0.1. It will have the ability to run cross-platform applications that require compatibility with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5," was stated on the Fedora Wiki page.
Mono 4.0 includes Microsoft’s open source code for the .NET framework
The Fedora developers opened a discussion on the Fedora devel mailinglist about the implementation of Mono 4.0 in Fedora 23, which might give them some headaches because the current version of Mono installed in Fedora is too old to upgrade.
Therefore, they will have to upgrade to Mono 3.4 first, then to Mono 3.12, and then to Mono 4.0.1, which is the latest stable version at the moment of writing this article. Or they can use a project called monolite to build Mono 4.0 directly.
We remind you that Mono 4.0, which was announced last month, includes Microsoft’s open source code for the .NET framework. More details about Mono 4.0 can be found on the project's website.