Microsoft + Canonical Announce Native .NET 6 For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft + Canonical Announce Native .NET 6 For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

The latest partnership between Microsoft and Canonical is an announcement today of native .NET availability for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS hosts as well as containers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.04-LTS-dotNET-6

[user1]

I'm actually surprised they offer it as a .deb package.

[binarybanana]

Canonical: Enemy of your freedom.

https://isdotnetopen.com/

[hax0r]

Why not snap? Make it a snap dammit so it can suck.

This is another evidence that M$ is paying Canonical to not make dotnet6 a failure if it was to be a snap, while typical enduser endures great suffering using snap software like Firefox.
M$ took Unity from which was the last decent DE, https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/85359.html

[Apteryx]

Canonical: Enemy of your freedom.
https://isdotnetopen.com/

Is it just me, or Miguel de Icaza being appalled by Microsoft's actions surrounding .NET is kind of hilarious? I mean, what did they expect?

[skeevy420]

I need to invest in tin futures.

[ezst036]

I guess I'm alone in thinking - This is fantastic news. The idea that someone can write a .NET app and it can be expected to natively run on Linux is quite a good thing.

How many of the major applications that the major software houses create run on .NET?

Suddenly, is Microsoft Office a native Linux application now? Suddenly, is the full-sized Visual Studio a Linux application now? What about other things by other companies? Are any of Adobe's programs written with .NET and 6.0 compliant? I'm sure there are a lot of big dependencies that may still be missing, such as a missing Registry.

Maybe I'm wrong about the implications here. Am I? How hard would it be at that point to port a native Linux application(.net 6.0) to Linux?

[Vermilion]

I guess it's not snap because snap itself doesn't work in docker containers (where .Net would be relevant)

[binarybanana]

Is it just me, or Miguel de Icaza being apalled by Microsoft's actions surrounding .NET is kind of hilarious? I mean, what did they expect?

The irony isn't lost on me. It's funny how MS ended up acquiring mono. There's got to be some anti-trust lawsuit in there.

I need to invest in tin futures.

Physical or bust.

[user1]

The idea that someone can write a .NET app and it can be expected to natively run on Linux is quite a good thing.

Wasn't it already possible with .NET 5.0?