Fun with Open Source: OpenDental
The past week I’ve been dabbling with an open source program called Open Dental - mostly trying to see if can get it to compile under Mono, and running under Linux. I figure that this would be a good opportunity to and work with a cross platform application.
According to their website, Open Dental has been supported under Linux since v4.7. Here are some notes of my efforts so far.
You will need Mono v1.2.5. It seems that there is a problem with the Linux binary installer ( a known bug that will be corrected in 1.2.6). I used the OpenSUSE 10.2 VMWare image which had a 1.2.5 install all set up. That solved my problem of getting a current Linux distro with the most recent version of Mono.