Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Novell. Mono provides a complete .NET CLR including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL bytecode (assemblies), and a .NET class library. . This package contains the Virtual Execution Environment and code generator (Just-in-Time and Ahead-of-Time) "mono" which runs CLI (.NET) applications, currently available for i386, powerpc, amd64 and ia64 architectures only.
