Microsoft has donated its Mono Challenge, which has supplied a .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and different working programs, to the WineHQ group, in keeping with bulletin publicized August 27.

WineHQ gives a compatibility layer for operating Home windows purposes on Posix-compliant platforms akin to Linux, macOS, and BSD. The group will take over as stewards of the Mono Challenge upstream at https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine-mono/mono.

Launched in 2001, the Mono Challenge was a trailblazer for the .NET Platform throughout many working programs, Microsoft’s Jeff Schwartz wrote in an August 27 posting on GitHub. “It helped make cross-platform .NET a actuality and enabled .NET in lots of new locations and we recognize the work of those that got here earlier than us,” Schwartz wrote. Right now, .NET itself runs on Home windows, macOS, and Linux, and can be utilized to construct native purposes for Home windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.