Moonlight 2.0 goes beta
The developer of the Moonlight software that enables Silverlight applications to run on Linux computers said on Monday that he is ready to start publicly beta testing an update to the software.
In a blog posting, Miguel de Icaza said the beta of Moonlight 2.0 is available from the gomono.com Web site.
Moonlight 2.0 is aimed at achieving compatibility with sites written for Silverlight 2.0, but incorporates the media pipeline and a few other features of Silverlight 3.0, de Icaza said. Microsoft released Silverlight 3.0 last month.
The beta is available both as source code and as a plug in for the Mozilla browser.
Work on Moonlight first started in 2007, with a beta of the original version released late last year and the final version released in February.
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No need to troll.
No, you still have the problem of Netflix's DRM.
Thanks for the adult reply.
Amen
Been using Ubuntu for 6 months, haven't suffered since I removed Windows from my machine.
@lennie22
Is that 30 minutes including all codecs to play every media file, flash installed and ready, AV and firewall (included in the kernel) and all instant messaging software?
With Linux Mint, that's what you get. While I prefer Ubuntu between the two, Linux Mint is a good and solid distro.
I`m doing an eval at my work, 4 Win 7 licenses, I can tell you with full certainty that it did`nt take 20-30 mins to install 7 on each of these machines, had to do a driver hunt too, was a bit of a pain considering 2 of these machines are 64bit and finding drivers was`nt easy.
Personal distro choice aside, I agree, flash installed, codecs are installed, firewalled (Win7 defaults to firewall too) the only thing that I also needed was JAVA, easy find in the repo, VLC is a must (for any platform) oh and you can`t forget default install of open office. I find you can get a rig up and going in about 40 mins.
Amen
I think it's great that Linux is not compatible with DRM.
You may want to have a look at Suse Studio, It let`s lets you pick whatever packages you want to go into a distro (it gets pretty detailed) it compensates for dependancies and creates an ISO to download. Pretty cool stuff, basically make your own distro or appliance (hint* make a Chrome OS like appliance)
http://susestudio.com/
Good for you. What else do you think it's great that Linux isn't ccompatible with?
Thanks. I'll look into it. Suse is probably my fave so far.
winmodem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem). Although they are probably supported nowadays.
At the moment Flash and Silverlight are the codecs of choice for HD streaming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5
It all depends if designers pick it up, if no one bites, Flash, Moonlight and Silverlight will still be here for a while, but yeah I think for HD streaming these plugins are still the best, right now.
The only hang-up is whether or not the developers will use it.
These sorts of things are good when used logically and sparingly, but not for your entire website.
My GNU/Linux system with its lovely KDE 4.3 desktop doesn't need Moonlight nor any other mendacious attempts at putting a tax on Linux from Microsoft sock puppets for not using Microsoft's operating system.