It's been a few days now that Monero-X wont start anymore.

It's crashing with


System is Linux Mint 17.1

It had been working well before. Any hint on what could be provoking this?

Thanks!

Thanks for your help but unfortunately it's still the same.

You do know that Microsoft has made .NET open source? Once Jojatekok gets this working well cross-platform, I think it'll be a great .NET contribution. We need developers in this space coming at Bitcoin from all angles, from all backgrounds.

Sounds like a personal problem. If you're not coding this yourself, your hate of Microsoft is your own problem.

I wonder if 90% of Monero users trust their XMR to Windows. I do not. elrippo does make some very valid points.

Edit: The biggest risk here is not the .net framework itself since Microsoft has released it as FLOSS but rather that it can open the door to other Windows Malware on a GNU/Linux system. A similar problem can occur with the Wine project.   

Honestly, I don't think his generalities were very valid at all.

ArticMine, "opening the door to Windows Malware on GNU/Linux" sounds like FUD to me. How about we focus specifically on MoneroX, and not all these broad generalities.

I agree with ArticMine that it isn't FUD. If you have something on your computer (.NET runtime) that can execute .NET programs intended for Windows they you have increased exposure.

Is .NET Native available for Linux? If you can compile the application to a native Linux binary and use it without the .NET runtime installed, the issue with Windows malware wouldn't apply. At that point it is just programming language.

Guys, we're talking about the Mono .NET Framework.

"Mono is a free and open source project led by Xamarin (formerly by Novell and originally by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard-compliant, .NET Framework-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime."

"Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. Sponsored by Xamarin, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications."

What I'm disagreeing with in this thread is this claim that since .NET was originally developed by Microsoft, that this somehow makes any application developed using the Mono .NET Framework a security risk. That just comes across to me as anti-Microsoft FUD.

Mono wasn't even developed by Microsoft. You can develop with it on Linux with MonoDevelop. You don't even have to touch a Windows machine. There are also sandboxing capabilities. And, you can even look at the code yourself if you're capable.

Again, how does using it make an application *by default* less secure than you choosing to make use of *any* other framework (in other words, pick any other, and it *must* be better)?

For sure, if you know of a security vulnerability in Mono that impacts MoneroX, tell the Mono guys about it. I'm sure they'll fix it.  Heck, if you're capable enough, *you* could even submit it to the project yourself.

But this idea that Mono isn't safe, because... Microsoft, is a bit much.

Can you be more explicit on this? I'd rather not assume what you really mean.

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