Microsoft Silverlight coming to a Linux box near you

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Microsoft Silverlight coming to a Linux box near you

by Grant Robertson Jun 22nd 2007

The largest hurdle towards widespread adoption of Microsoft's Flash/AIR competitor "Silverlight" may have just gotten a little smaller. Miguel De Icaza, developer of the open source .Net-alike platform Mono and star employee of Novell has recently mentioned on his blog that he and a team of develpoers have been putting in extremely long days to implement Microsoft's new portable platform on Linux.

Dubbed "Moonlight", the project isn't ready for release just yet but Icaza published some excellent screenshots and is currently showing off his new baby to ReMix 2007 conference in France.

The addition of a competitive platform to Flash on Linux could mean we'll see Adobe step up development efforts. The short story -- and our sincere hope -- is, that could mena much shorter waits for equal Flash versions to our Windows pals.

[via The Inquirer]

Tags: Flash, Miguel De icaza, MiguelDeIcaza, Moonlight, Silverlight

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Calvin said 8:05PM on 6-22-2007

Who said Windows was our pal?

Kevin M. said 2:31AM on 6-24-2007

Who wants to bet that this won't be available for Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo or other distros that haven't caved into Microsoft's demands?

Pepe Gonzalez said 9:13PM on 6-24-2007

Well, Kevin M., I bet it will be. Mono has nothing to do with Microsft, other than that they are implementing a FOSS version of .Net. In fact, Mono is available in Debian, Ubuntu, and probably in the Gentoo repositories.

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