Anti-Windows "race to Linux 2.0" Activity

Recently, the devx website held a "race to Linux" 2.0" . The method for the activity is as follows: The devx website will publish a question on July 6, and July 6. These questions are the Windows platform application software originally created using Microsoft Visual Studio. Contestants must port these applications to Linux in the shortest time. Each question selects three winners to win a Wii.

Contestants can choose what tool software they want to use to transplant these applications. However, because the main sponsors of this activity are mainsoft, Novell, and IBM, if you choose products from these vendors, the odds should be relatively large.

For mainsoft, mainsoft currently provides a set of free tool software called grasshopper. This tool is basically a plug-in software of Visual Studio. Once installed, you can directly compile the program code on the. NET platform from Visual Studio into a Java code, and then put the code on Apache Tomcat for execution.

As for Novell, Mono is the oldest. Net for Unix/Linux. In the most perfect case, as long as the user installs mono on Unix/Linux, the. NET software originally executed only on Windows can also be directly executed on Unix/Linux.

Hector Ramirez from Mexico used Grasshopper to port Microsoft's sample program Small Business Starter Kit to Linux to win. You can go to race to Linux to learn about the relevant information and learn articles about porting. net programs to the Linux platform.