In an interesting turn of events, we (at Novell) will be sponsoring the MSDN Developer Conferences in January and February this year. If you've not heard about these events yet, they are basically a mini-PDC roadshow, with a good cross-section of some of the best content from the conference. The remaining events will be taking place in Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Washington, DC; New York, NY; Boston, MA; Detroit, MI; Dallas, TX; and San Francisco, CA. Register quickly*, though, next up are Chicago and Minneapolis next Tuesday.
If you're running Linux, this site makes a good Moonlight demo.
As Gold Sponsors of the New York, Boston, and Dallas events, we will be there with a Novell table set up to demonstrate and discuss Mono, openSUSE, and Moonlight. I hope you'll come by and say "Hi".
The really cool thing, though, is that in all cities we will be giving away copies of the Mono live DVD in the attendee bag. This disc sports Mono 2.0 running on openSUSE 11.0, and was built with the absolutely amazing SUSE Studio (more on that soon).
If you have not downloaded our Live CD before, the disc provides a way for you to try out openSUSE Linux, the Mono Framework 2.0, and many open source .NET applications without modifying your current computing environment. You can boot your machine (or VMware) with the disc to test your own .NET applications on Linux, or just try some of the great open source desktop and ASP.NET applications which are already installed and configured inside. It also includes tools to help you get started developing with Mono, including the MonoDevelop IDE and Mono Migration Analyzer.
This DVD has a few unique features not included on the Mono live CD we host on the site, including content on the Windows accessible portion of the DVD, with tools such as MoMA, Mono for Windows, and installable VMware and Virtual PC images. (Many thanks to Jon Galloway for his excellent tips on converting the VMware image to a Virtual PC image.)
This is also the first Mono live image which includes Moonlight.
Pick up Linux at your local Microsoft Developer Conference
* I have a few extra RSVP codes for most of the cities. Please let me know if you're interested in attending, but haven't registered yet. (First come, first serve.)
