The runtime supports Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT4 SP6a and Windows ME/98. Windows 95 is not supported. Some parts of the framework do not work on all platforms - for example, ASP.NET is only supported on XP and Windows 2000/2003. Windows 98/ME cannot be used for development. IIS is not supported on Windows XP Home Edition, and so cannot be used to host ASP.NET. However, the ASP.NET Web Matrix web server does run on XP Home. The .NET Compact Framework is a version of the .

IBM-PCs and compatibles running MSDOS (which includes MS-Windows, DR-DOS, Novell DOS, and OS/2 if you have enough memory). Many variants of unix. In particular, configuration options are already in place for: NeXT, BSD 4.2/4.3, A/UX, SUN, LINUX, IRIS, Ultrix, XENIX, Interactive 386/ix, HP/UX, Altos 2000. If you have one of these environments, Waffle should just drop in with no problems.

There are two separate mechanisms provided by the .NET class library - XmlSerializer and SoapFormatter/BinaryFormatter. Microsoft uses XmlSerializer for Web Services, and SoapFormatter/BinaryFormatter for remoting. Both are available for use in your own code. It depends. XmlSerializer has severe limitations such as the requirement that the target class has a parameterless constructor, and only public read/write properties and fields can be serialized.

MS Windows 2000/XP/VISTA - (Windows operation systems must have most current service packs installed.) Microsoft no longer fully supports Windows 95/98/ME so we are limited in the support we can provide. Music Book Deluxe will still run on these operating systems but not fully guaranteed and will not be upgradeable past version 1.04.6008. You will still be able to register/activate and run the update process. There is no special download all setups know what OS you are running.

Lightbox works on Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows Me and Windows 98SE.

Oasis should run on Linux and FreeBSD (tested with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/3.0, RedHat 7.2, FreeBSD 4.4/4.5) if openssl, libpcap, libnet and libpthreads are installed. The sample firewall script installed uses iptables so it needs to be rewritten for FreeBSD to support ipfw. If you do, please contribute an alternative script that can be included in the distribution.

While Eiffel and EiffelStudio are very portable and run on many platforms, EiffelEnvision is targeted specifically at .NET, and thus runs only on Windows versions that support the .NET framework. At this time, those are Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

Our licenses are based on concurrent user count. Our beginning license level is 8 users. Above 8 users, you can purchase users one-at-a-time or in more economical "packs" of 16 or 32 users.

Because it is implemented as a Perl script, Cons could conceivably run on any system that supports Perl. Cons is known to be in production use on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, and Windows NT.

Rom was developed on the linux version of unix. It will run on most other forms of unix as well, although it may require adjustment of the compile options. There are single-user versions available for other operating systems such as MacOS and DOS. However, Rom was intended to run on unix and we do not support any other operating systems.

Windows-based systems, including Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and XP; and most Unix-based systems, including SunOS 5.6, Red Hat Linux 7.0 through Fedora Core 4, and FreeBSD. If you have another Unix-based operating system, such as BSDI or Irix, we may be able to compile the software on your server. Contact us for details. Unfortunately, Macintosh Web servers are not supported. Top

SurfStream works on Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows Me and Windows 98SE.

DownloadStudio runs on Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows Me and Windows 98SE.

NetRanger works on Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows NT4 (SP6), Windows Me and Windows 98SE.

SRB has been ported to a variety of Unix platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, AIX (ex. SP-2 machines), Solaris, SunOS, SGI Irix and to Windows. The Windows version of the Server cannot be configured with an MCAT (so it talks to one that is), but can store and retrieve data from the Windows file system. SRB is easily portable to Unix-type OSes.

Yes - if you have a managed application, it will require the framework to be present in order to run. This is like requiring the Win32 libraries to be present in order to run Windows applications. Pre-compiling your code using ngen doesn't affect this requirement.

At the date of this FAQ (see top), TNOS has been compiled or run on, most DOS systems, e.g. Microsoft, DR and PC. It works well under OS/2 and recent versions of Linux. TNOS will also run/compile with Free/BSD and with BSD/OS (BSDI). Included makefile for BSD/OS by Dave VK2KFU # USEELF = INSTALL= install -c -g dialer -m 2755 CC = gcc PATCHES = -DIS_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DUSE_SETSTACK -DBSD_RANDOM -DDUMP_CORE SETSTACK= setsp.

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (Windows Server 2003 SP1 support for Virtual Server 2005 R2 only) In April 2005, Microsoft announced future plans to support additional third-party operating systems, including certain Linux distributions, on Virtual Server 2005 R2. More details of the specific guest operating systems that will be supported and the means of support will be provided at a later date.

Although we support plenty of platforms, we do not package Mono in binary form for all of the supported platforms.