LeFantome

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

The “fork” is the real version of Mono and Microsoft is not giving it up.

The repository managed by “The Mono Project” still targets .NET Framework. Microsoft does not care about the official version of that. Why would they want to manage an Open Source replica of it.

In some ways though, this is good. Nobody should be seeing the Mono Project as a viable cross-platform development framework at this point. It is nothing more than a support layer for running legacy software that was originally Windows only. That makes it a good fit for Wine.

If you want what Mono used to be, a cross-platform application framework, you can just use the actual .NET from Microsoft. It includes the Mono runtime for targeting mobile platforms and Microsoft continues to actively develop it. They are not passing control of that to anybody.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Do you know that this does not? It might.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The hardware is not old but it is low powered. From the article: “The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II would struggle to outperform a cheap, second-hand ARM-based Android tablet from 5 years ago.”

The reason to buy it is not to have a tablet. It is to have an affordable RISC-V development and test machine.

Buy it if you want to help advance RISC-V.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago

You people are hilarious. Red Hat provides more GPL code than any company I can think of. Half of what people call GNU has Red Hat as the largest contributor.

Feels before reals.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

That’s what he said

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Agree with you up until “the competition was not”.

GNU HURD was competition for one thing.

More importantly, so was BSD. BSD predates Linux ( though its distribution specifically as FreeBSD does not ).

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

If usability is the goal, then ReactOS is not the answer.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

They use Rust for app dev already. Pretty sure they know what they are biting off.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

Highlights from R560 Beta Release, 560.28.03

  • Updated nvidia-installer to select the NVIDIA open GPU kernel modules by default on systems with GPUs that support both the proprietary and open kernel modules.
[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

If you use GNOME, try Boxes.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not really a desktop option like VirtualBox though.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have been using VirtualBox modified to use KVM as its backend. It has been great on my 2013 MacBook Air.

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