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You don't have to know Chinese to guess what this blog entry, titled 在Monoppix上Hello World, which I saw scrolling by at JavaBlogs.com today, is about:

Toby Sun: 兴奋得事情还远不止于此，Monoppix = Mono + Knoppix，它是一个已经安装和配置好Mono的Knoppix，以及预制了MySQL的一个on-the-fly的CD，完全遵守GNU/Linux。

Monoppix is a Knoppix based bootable live Linux CD that includes the Mono implementation of .NET Framework.)

Since Mono works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, it's hard to imagine why anyone would want to download a 426MB ISO image just to see a working Mono installation. But then again, I did download it, burned the CD (from the Mac mini), and booted it on my Thinkpad, just to take a look at it. It contains the Mono 1.0.5 release of everything, the compiler, the JIT VM, the ASP.NET engine, the libraries, and the IKVM.NET JVM to CLI translator. MySQL is there, as well as the MonoDevelop IDE.

So, if you are a .NET developer who doesn't have a working Linux installation but would like to see your C# code running on a non-Windows operating system, Monoppix is for you.

If you just want to see your C# code running in Mono, you will be better off just to install Mono on Windows. Likewise, if you already have a Linux machine, you will be better off just to installation Mono on it. I just pulled down the latest unstable release 1.1.4 from the FC3 yum repository.