One of the disadvantages of using Visual Studio.NET and the .NET framework to develop applications has been the lack of cross-platform support. Since the introduction of the .NET framework and common language run time a few years ago there have been a few projects designed to bring the .NET framework to other platforms including Linux and Unix.The DotGNU project is touted as the Free software alternative to .NET and encompasses a number of projects including DotGNU Portable .NET which is designed to be used to compile and run C# and C applications on a multitude of platforms including GNU/Linux FreeBSD Mac OS X and Windows.One of the main features of the product is it's compatibility with EMCA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) as well as Microsoft's own CLI implementation in the .NET framework.The project chose to go with a Virtual Machine implementation where bytecode is transformed into a simple instruction set which is then passed to a Converted Virtual Machine which then are executed through an interpreter. This approach is different to other open source .NET implementations but provides more flexibility when porting the project to other platforms.At the core of the project is the runtime engine (ilrun) and compiler (cscc) with an implementation of System.Windows.Forms that make developing for the platform easier as it doesn't required translation through another toolkit or toolset
No u canot run dot net on unix platform. Still it will not envent for other platform its a microsoft product for run its lagg and component in microsoft platform
