The Mono project has announced the availability of Mono 2.0, an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework. Mono 2.0 provides all the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, as well as other operating systems. The new Mono 2.0 release is now compatible with the desktop and server components of version 2.0 of the Microsoft .NET framework and features the Mono Migration Analyser (MoMA), an analytical tool for .NET-to-Linux migrations.

More than 2,000 .NET applications are Mono 2.0 compatible with no
code changes. Version 2.0 includes performance upgrades-improves scaling and performance for ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Mono runtime; and useful downloads-a virtual machine image that comes with a ready-to-use development environment, as well as many open source Web and desktop .NET applications, including the ASP. NET Starter Kits and other demos. An updated version of the MoMA tool, with improved reporting, is also available and can be downloaded at www.mono¬project.com/downloads.