Moonlight 1.0 Beta is an implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight for Linux and is the result of a technical collaboration between Novell and Microsoft that was announced in September 2007. Microsoft made available its test suites for Silverlight and has released a Media Pack for Linux users that includes licensed media codecs for video and audio.
Moonlight is distributed as a Firefox extension and should run on most major Linux distributions in Firefox 3. It has been tested on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, openSUSE 11.0, Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora Core 9.
Source code is also available for Moonlight so it can be ported to other platforms. Moonlight 1.0 is available under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). The Microsoft Media Pack is a product distributed by Microsoft and is available from Microsoft's Web site for use with Moonlight.
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