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But what about runtimes? Can I have a single .NET runtime that will work with all of those Linux versions? With mono I have a single runtime that actually works across almost every Linux distro. Can I do this with .NET, have a generic runtime build that just works on everything?

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From what I've seen, the answer is yes. Build once, drop and run anywhere.

Any information on how? I've been trying from a while, but keep getting bogged down in all the new terminology and constant changes to .NET Core...

.Net Core is the runtime. It's the cross platform version of the .NET Framework.

.Net Standard is just an API specification which will be implemented on the .NET Framework, .NET Core, or Xamarin runtimes. Technically it's a subset of the .NET Framework libraries. It's more of an improvement on .NET Core as it is bringing more APIs to that runtime.

So basically as long as you use the APIs in .NET Standard, your application can be compiled for any of those 3 runtimes.

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