If you haven’t been aware, there has been a team at Novell working hard to make a version of Silverlight for Linux. This version, called Moonlight, has been in development since WPF/e it was first shown at the MIX conference (which by the way is happening in March with some really exciting stuff, so be sure to register for MIX09!). Moonlight hit beta this past December 2008 and the team has already been working on Moonlight 2 which is the Silverlight 2 compatible version. Right now, Moonlight 1.0 serves as a functional equivalent to the Silverlight 1.0 runtime, which was released a while back. Moonlight 1.0 will not enable to you to view Silverlight 2 content right now. If you want to track Moonlight 2 status, you can do so on the Moonlight project page (various links to Moonlight 2 hacking and discussion lists). One of the... [read full story]
