An Introduction to Mono Development (articol)

Many .NET developers, accustomed to Microsoft's Windows-only development tools' capabilities, are quite surprised when they learn that .NET is platform-independent. But it's true. You can compile and execute .NET assemblies on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows. Currently, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and numerous flavors of Unix/Linux can be happy homes for your .NET binaries.http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/31741/0/