Open Source and Mono Desklets

re: Open Source and Mono Desklets

Jonesy99 — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:41:14 GMT

Here's another

I dev on Windows using .NET but great to see some Linux people getting in on the act with Mono/Moonlight. Mono is definetly gaining some traction now which can only be good for everyone.

re: Open Source and Mono Desklets

Björn — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:09:32 GMT

Browse around the projects found on CodePlex [1] - granted, most/a lot might be libraries only, but that would be a better starting point than the abandoned projects yard that is known as SourceForge :]

[1] http://www.codeplex.com/

re: Open Source and Mono Desklets

Björn — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:18:48 GMT

Oh, and the comments at this Coding Horror post [1] do have a nice list of .NET based open source projects, e.g. how can one forget Paint.NET?

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000894.html#comments

re: Open Source and Mono Desklets

jvast — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:48:56 GMT

Bjorn, nice link. I don't know how I missed that post over at Coding Horror. I think I can help spotlight the situation.

Watch for coming focus on Open Source at InfoQ.com in the .NET Q.

re: Open Source and Mono Desklets

Mat Steeples — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:57:09 GMT

Beagle - http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page

Banshee - http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page

iFolder - http://www.ifolder.com/index.php/Main_Page

There's loads more out there. Some half decent IM clients are coming along that use telepathy for the backend, and they're gaining traction in the OSS world. As mono gets better, more apps will be written in it.

If its .NET – Kick It

A blog to the tune of James — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:48:36 GMT

So this week I came across a cool new site. DotNetKicks.com This last week Gavin Joyce open-sourced the