Silverlight for Linux hits with Microsoft punch

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 12, 2009 4:07 PM EDT
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An open-source version of Silverlight has been released with Microsoft's support, as Flash rival Adobe began crowing about the new media player's death. Moonlight 1.0 from the Novell-backed Mono team was posted Wednesday, having passed all of Microsoft's regression tests. Moonlight plugs into Firefox and is available for all major Linux distributions including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu.

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Supporting a fully open GPLed Moonlight is a smart move tracyanne 23 969 Feb 14, 2009 1:20 AM

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