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1. #SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN INSTALL#
2. #SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN CODE#
3. #SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN DOWNLOAD#
4. #SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN WINDOWS#

In the long run, though, Adobe's Flash already owns most of the Internet's streaming video, and Adobe AIR provides the same kind of middle-weight Internet application interfaces that Silverlight promises. It's really just a matter of bad Web site design and that's easy enough to fix. I'm sure the sites that currently support Silverlight will eventually let you use Moonlight as well. And, from the way the economy is tanking, it looks like there's little work being done to make more Silverlight applications or content available. That sounds good, and Moonlight does work, but there's really very little Silverlight content out there.

#SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN WINDOWS#

This first release delivers on the goal of breaking down barriers to multimedia content and creating parity in the user's viewing experience regardless of whether the user is on Windows or Linux." In a statement, Miguel de Icaza, Mono's founder and Novell's Developer Platform vice president, said "Moonlight brings the benefits of Silverlight's popular multimedia content to Linux viewers. right up to the point where it slams the door in your face. It will look like you can see their content. That's because they check, not to see if you can view Silverlight content, but if you have the 'right' combination of Web browser and operating system. You will also find that some Silverlight-enabled sites, such as the Olympics site and Netflix, are set so that they still won't play their content even with Moonlight installed. So, for example, you can't use it to watch most of the WMV videos on the WindowsMedia site.

It only works with content that's already been encapsulated in Silverlight. The site I used to fully enable Moonlight was the Official Microsoft Silverlight site.

#SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN DOWNLOAD#

Instead, you'll be asked to download it the first time you come across a Silverlight site that requires any of the Microsoft codecs.

#SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN INSTALL#

The instructions on the Web page give you the impression that after you install Moonlight, you'll be prompted to install the Microsoft Media Pack. In practice, I've installed and used it without any trouble at all on not only those operating systems but on MEPIS 8, which is based on Debian 5, Lenny, and Mint 6, which is built on top of Ubuntu 8.10. Officially, Moonlight supports SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10, the latest versions of openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu on 32-bit architectures and SLED and openSUSE on 64-bit chips. The one possible mis-step is that you must be sure to give the site permission to download and install Moonlight on your browser. This is a straightforward operation and will be familiar to anyone who's downloaded Firefox add-ons. To get Moonlight, you download it as a Firefox add-on from the Go-Mono site. This is a Microsoft blessed set of Microsoft's proprietary media codecs. Moonlight not only brings Silverlight content to Linux users, though, it also brings Microsoft's WMV (Windows Media Video), WMA (Windows Media Audio) and MP3 files to Linux via the Microsoft Media Pack.

#SILVERLIGHT LINUXIIN CODE#

NET code to Linux, has just released an open-source, Firefox add-in Moonlight 1.0 that enables Linux desktop users to view Moonlight content. The Mono Project, a Novell sponsored open-source initiative to bring. Until recently, if you were using Linux that meant you couldn't watch videos from these sites at all. Be that as it may, some sites, like NBC's Olympics site, use Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight streaming technology. It’s unlikely that anyone will miss Silverlight, let alone Moonlight.If you're like me, you don't like proprietary video and audio codecs. And Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that made it useless for desktop programming. Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become. The CTO of Mono development company Xamarin, Miguel de Icaza, explained the reasoning further in an interview with : – Putting developer time, resource and money into providing access to a fading, irrelevant web technology makes no sense. With such poor adoption for the official version it makes the demise of Moonlight less surprising. Once touted as a rival for Adobe’s Flash, Silverlight is in danger of being canned itself. Wikipedia reports that, as of August 2011, less than 0.3% of websites make use of the technology, compared to Adobe’s Flash 23%. The project, created in 2009, provided Linux users with a means to accessing websites and web content created using Silverlight. Moonlight, the third-party open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin, has been discontinued due to a lack of demand.