Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:35:09 -0500 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: .NET on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030409232336.01b7ff00@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <0HD300FAKXF8BE@net.WAU.NL>
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At 10:48 PM 4/9/2003, Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek wrote: >who would want to [use .NET on FreeBSD]? :P That was my thought too, but after reading the article about the Shared=20 Source CLI in the July 2002 issue of MSDN Magazine, I got a little= interested. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/default.aspx A couple of notable quotations: When I first heard about the Shared Source CLI, I expected it to be the=20 smallest and feeblest implementation Microsoft could get away with, so I=20 was amazed when I finally got to see it. The Shared Source CLI isn't some=20 one-off implementation built on the cheap. Rather, the Shared Source CLI=20 code base is derived from the source code to the CLR and is practically=20 identical in most important respects. In addition to the execution engine itself, the Shared Source CLI includes= =20 source code to practically every .NET tool that comes with the CLR (and=20 some that don't!) including complete C# and JScript=AE compilers and= portable=20 versions of all the familiar .NET tools.... I really think it could be very beneficial to FreeBSD (or any OS for that=20 matter) to have a fully functional .NET CLR environment. Not only would it= =20 open up a load of Windows software developed to FreeBSD users, but it could= =20 make FreeBSD a viable replacement for a Windows desktop or IIS server. In= =20 other words, it could only broaden our market share.
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