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Microsoft's .NET framework on Linux is getting a big boost with the official release Monday of Novell's Mono 2.0. The Mono 2.0 release is Novell's open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET platform. With the latest version, the gap between the two is getting smaller. Even though Mono 2.0 is compatible with Microsoft's .NET 2.0, it's not in full compliance with the latest .NET releases from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). The Mono effort is important as it is intended to enable .NET (define) applications to run on Linux.