Mono Live has launched, the brainchild of Joseph Hill. They are offering a Live CD of Mono for folks to try out the Mono development platform. It includes Mono, various Mono-based applications and .NET applications that you can take for a spin:

• Development tools: Mono, MonoDoc, MonoDevelop.
• Web portals: ASP.NET Forums, mojoPortal, IBuySpy.
• Desktop Applications: Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, Muine

Mainsoft releases Grasshopper

Mainsoft unveiled today Grasshopper, a technology to run your .NET applications on a Java Virtual Machine. Mainsoft's Grasshopper and Mono share the same class library to deliver the functionality, check out Mainsoft's developer site.

They have various tutorials like "Create your first Linux application with the Visual Studio .NET IDE in 10 minutes."