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? 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