Folks,

I just saw the Mono guys have rolled out a VMWare appliance.  I'm a strong advocate of DNN and use it on several projects, and love the fact that there are no cost options for the DB and dev environment.  Theoretically Mono and Linux provide no cost option for the OS, but in practice this isn't readily available.  Upon seeing the Mono VMWare appliance it occurred to me (as it probably has others) this would be a great way to provide a no cost deployable environment for DNN.  The complexities of getting DNN running on Linux/Mono would be significantly reduced via VMWare deployment and provide and immediate operating capability.  Checkout VMWare's virtual appliance directory to get an idea how other open source efforts are leveraging this technology.

Thoughts?

Bill

Thx for pointing out that appliance. I've been struggling to get MonoDevelop running. It's even running my favorite distro SUSE  I am downloading the torrent already

I don't think DNN will be capable of running on Apache/Mono any time soon. And I personally believe a fork of DNN to tun on Apache/Mono  would be a much beter idea then struggling to make DNN platform independend. I want DNN to tie as deep into IIS/windows as possible, as would it be a great Idea to tie a fork deep into Apache/Linux