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Microsoft has some minimal degree of support for F# on Mono. It is not the core focus for the F# team, but they do get to spend some time on it currently. Give it a shot.

Yep, F# works well, and Miguel de Icaza et al. are playing with it.

To get F# running with Mono, you'll want (at least on Linux) Mono 2.8+, and either MonoDevelop 2.4 (for which Thomas Petricek's language plugin works) or your own editor. I've mostly been using the stand-alone REPL and tweaking some Vim syntax highlighting.

You can definitely run F# on Mono. Since F* seems to be an extension of F#, it might work on Mono too, but I don't know that for sure.

A lot of what comes out of MS Research ends up in their mainstream Visual Studio supported languages, so I would not be surprised to see at least some of F* get rolled into F# vNext, and maybe eventually C# too.

I do know Banshee is written in C# and runs pretty well on Mono, but that was an application specifically intended for that application.

I have to say, F# and now F* are about the only languages that could tempt me to give Mono a try.