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Mono

Cross platform, open source .NET framework

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The WineHQ organization is taking over as stewards of the Mono Project upstream at wine-mono. Source code in existing mono/mono and other repos will remain available, though repos may be archived, and binaries will remain available for up to four years. Microsoft maintains a modern fork of the Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has completed moving workloads to that fork; active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks are recommended to migrate to .NET.

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