Port to mono platform

[xloem]

Apertus uses packages that are not available in Mono, causing it to only run in Windows.

It would be great to see Apertus on Linux.

[embiimob]

Xloem, thanks for your comment. Our plan is to Support all platforms by the 0.5 beta release.

To give you an idea of our current roadmap:

0.3 we are concentrating on Identity management and a wide range of social networking features made popular in platforms like facebook and twitter. (release date mid to late august)

0.4 we are introducing Tokens, Asset transfer \ contracts and more storage options (ex: OP_Return, Multisig...) release date late October

0.5 will be mainly re-factoring focused on security and using best coding practices (we will begin our campaign asking for more help from the development community for this release. As i am not the best man for this job! ( My coding skills = 💩 on a good day. ) Our goal would be to support all OS's at this time. All current functionality will be ported to a web based application with an open API. we will also be introducing remote upgrades at this time

0.6 we will be introducing distributed search functionality similar to what google uses today to return your search results. we will also hope to release a mobile client during this time frame.

0.7 we will be focused on streaming audio and video.

We hope that the community will help drive the release following 0.7 with a goal to replace all the tasks normally done from a personal computer.

That being said we can use the help right now!

[GameKyuubi]

I managed to get it to build and start on linux, but I had to kill a few things: IE and your use of GlyphTypeface and all references. The removal of IE basically means there's no web view, which destroys a lot of functionality. Maybe there's a FOSS alternative?

[embiimob]

spectacular 🙏🏽

[xloem]

Quick googling yields some IE alternatives:

• CefGlue mainline: https://gitlab.com/xiliumhq/chromiumembedded/cefglue
• Optimus: https://bitbucket.org/RusKnyaz/optimus/wiki/Home
• CefGlue for .NET Core on Avalonia: https://github.com/VitalElement/CefGlue.Core
• GlueZilla: https://github.com/mono/gluezilla (from https://stackoverflow.com/a/34470041/129550 )

[embiimob]

we are re-focusing this summer on creating a SOA web application instead of the forms based thick client... a platform agnostic service that creates a website that is capable of being publicly hosted and or running locally in any browser. it will have a google like search entry point along with twitter like social media functions and instant messaging. but i personally would still love to see this running in linux. thanks for all your work