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Today the Mono Project released the much-anticipated Mono 2.0 for Linux. After two-and-a-half years in development, Mono 2.0 is finally here and ready to run your .NET 2.0 applications, Windows Forms, ASP.NET content on Mac OS X, BSD and Linux.

Mono is multi-language capable--choose your own path from C#, VB, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Eiffel, F#, Oxygene and more.

Mono is a cross-platform, open source .NET development framework. Now the question is, why? Why would anyone want to use .NET for anything if you're still using PHP, Python, Java, etc. for development?

Mostly it's because Miguel...

Steve Ballmer should limit his worries to Microsoft and his advice to his employees. Last week the Microsoft CEO reportedly had the audacity to suggest that Apple "become more like Microsoft," and loosen the bonds between Apple hardware and software.

Is he really that clueless? Surely he's aware that it's the marriage between hardware and Mac OS X that allows Apple build the best, most intuitive computers and smartphones in the world.

According to an article on CNet News the comments came during an interview conducted by a Ziff Davis reporter at the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley...

Apple this week released an update to its Java Virtual Machine, taking users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard to 1.6.0_07.

Depending on your operating system, the patch fixes as many as 27 bugs, and chances are pretty good that you'll benefit.

There are separate updaters for Tiger and Leopard, or you can simply run Apple's Software Update and let the OS figure it out.

If you're not sure whether you need to upgrade, an applet at the JavaTester.org Web site will help you find out which JVM version you're using in the browser that you use to visit the page.

While Sun updates JVMs for...

Sun Microsystems managed to fix multiple security vulnerabilities in JDK and JRE months ago now, so why has it taken Apple so long to finally plug pretty much the same Java holes in Mac OS X?

Apple has known that its Java implementation has been, quite frankly, screwed since way back when. At least since April, because that is when Sun Microsystems started shipping security updates that fixed the flaws it had uncovered.

Fast forward through the summer and, at long last, Apple has finally managed to sort out the problems with its own version of Java and announce updates to plug at least two...

Are you participating in Hack Week? That's Novell's open invitation to the world for suggestions on how to improve its openSuse Linux distro running through this Friday, Aug. 29.

And you might just even win a prize. Calls for porting Tomboy to Windows (and maybe even Mac OS X), adding geocode filtering to RSS and fully supporting Amazon's Elastic Cloud 2 are just a few of the ideas put forth in this year's annual Hack Week.

Among last year's 10 winning ideas were a build service project that recompiles Debian packages, a service that can run automated tests as part of a build, and Giver,...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and financial backer of Ubuntu, urges the Linux Community to "build a better desktop than Apple." Shuttleworth made this statement this week at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Convention).

He added that interoperability with Windows is of very high importance. Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on that.

Shuttleworth is actually correct. We should focus on a better Linux desktop--better than Apple's Mac OS X--better than Windows--and better than current Linux offerings.

If you're not a billionaire like Mark Shuttleworth, how do you go about building a better...

One of my very first blog entries here at DaniWeb was titled “Mac-Cloner Psystar: Hero or Hoax?” Well it was either no hoax at all or Apple was the latest to get sucked in.

It was revealed today that Apple on July 3 filed a law suit in San Jose, Calif., against Psystar Corp. for copyright and software licensing violations.

Psystar has for several months been advertising the availability of the Psystar Open Computer and OpenServ, Intel-based machines with the option of preinstalled Mac OS X software; prices started at around US$600.

Apple’s licensing agreement forbids inclusion of its...

A built-in profiler, a new attributes language and enhanced project analyzer are among the features in RealBasic 3.0, the cross-platform integrated development environment from Real Software.

The IDE for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows began shipping today. RealBasic 3 now supports attributes—which the company characterizes as compile-time properties—for project items and code items.

Attribute names can take the form of either an identifier (which for now are limited to “reserved” or “hidden”) or a string, and can optionally carry a value.

Apple has rolled no less than 25 patches into the Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard update that was announced yesterday.

These address a number of Ruby vulnerabilities, as reported here on DaniWeb last month by fellow blogger Davey Winder.

So that's six of the patches accounted for at any rate. Others are a little more difficult to pin down, although Apple does say that they address operating system and application performance issues.

It’s been more than 10 days since the latest AppleScript.THT Trojan horse for Mac OS X reared its ugly head, yet still no word or fix from Apple.

The new threat to versions 10.4 and 10.5 is classified as critical by the SecureMac security site, exploits a hole in the Apple Remote Desktop Agent to completely overtake an infected Mac and delete files and wreak other kinds of havoc.

This threat, discovered on June 19, was made public on the SecureMac site a week ago today. There have been a few rumblings on Apple’s discussion forums, but to date, no official advice from the company.

Two...