Posted on 06/25/2007 9:54:39 AM PDT by N3WBI3
The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight.
Needless to say, we believe that Silverlight is a fantastic development platform, and its .NET-based version is incredibly interesting and as Linux/Unix users we wanted to both get access to content produced with it and to use Linux as our developer platform for Silverlight-powered web sites.
Am now on a flight to Paris to show the results of 20 days of intense work that the team has implemented. It is hard to contribute to the effort sitting on a plane when the tree is changing every 10-20 minutes.
There is technically still some time left to improve what we can show.
You can see our screenshot-log to see our progress or the Moonlight Project Planning Page. Testing Silverlight on Linux
At this point we do not have a packaged release of Silverlight for Linux and we still have to sort out a few things that would have to be done in order to ship a ready-to-use plugin.
But if you are curious or want to contribute to the effort check our page for information on downloading, compiling and getting started with the project.
OSS PING
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