Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.

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"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. "

The Mono Team has just finished their first release of Mono, the 100% compatible open-source alternative to Silverlight..... that runs on Linux. More importantly, unlike Mono itself, Moonlight will be "drop-in" ready, complete with compatible UI and animation layers.

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The reasons are threefold: The size of the Linux community (or rather the lack of size), their unwillingness to use MS products, and the costs involved porting to multiple distros.

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