There is a real desire to encourage developers to begin porting ASP.NET apps over to Linux. Since funds may not always be plentiful in this type of project, some have taken to drastic methods of encouragement - gaming consoles.

The Race to Linux challenges Visual Studio developers to port existing ASP.NET applications to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Grasshopper, Mono, PHP, Macromedia, etc.). The applications to be ported to run on Linux will be announced at the start of each race. The hardware used for judging will be IBM xSeries.

The winners of each of the three races will win an Xbox 360. In addition, contestants using Grasshopper will also qualify to win an Xbox 360 game of their choice. Limit one Xbox 360 and one game per participant. [Read the rest]