Moonlight 1.0 (Silverlight for Linux)

[CoolCatBad]

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Feb-11.html

"Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. We are feature complete, we pass all the Microsoft regression test suites and we shipped support for Microsoft's Media Pack for x86 and x86-64 architectures.

Moonlight is available as a Firefox plugin that can be installed with a single click from the moonlight download page."

[The Canadian]

Now only if they could get Moonlight to run on Windows as an alternative to Silverlight, that would be something....

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

It'd be nice if PPC Mac was still supported, although considering how badly Silverlight 1 ran (and Flash), it might not be such a bad thing.

[qdave]

Now only if they could get Moonlight to run on Windows as an alternative to Silverlight, that would be something....

wjhy would you need that? isnt silverlight good enough?

[The Canadian]

wjhy would you need that? isnt silverlight good enough?

Competition is good, it fosters innovation -- well it's supposed to -- and regardless two applications that do the same thing are better; one is closed source and one is open source.

[thealexweb]

Why didn't they just brand as Silverlight for Linux.

[hdood]

Because Silverlight is a Microsoft trademark that only Microsoft can use. Moonlight is made by a third party.

I've tried it out though, and it works just fine (for 1.0 stuff anyway), including video and everything. Couldn't be simpler to install either. Here's hoping they get 2.0 out by the end of the year (although that will require Mono).

[HawkMan]

Why didn't they just brand as Silverlight for Linux.

Because silverlight is MS' name and trademark. and despite being somewhat under Ms' wing, they can't use their trademarks.