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Tim Heuer wrote today about the progression of the Silverlight install experience on Linux. Its something that the Novell engineers are working on to make SIlverlight smoother on their OS. Tim shows quickly how the experience goes in his video. Definitely something to keep on eye on.
Novell is also working on Moonlight, which is the key to allowing Silverlight 2 to run on Linux. Its not there yet (still in beta), but when its ready we will be able to write Silverlight applications that run on the 3 major OS's. Obviously we can run it on Windows flavors and also on Apple flavored OS's now.
I am hoping that more comes out at Mix 09 in March on this topic as it would be nice to get Silverlight on all 3 OS's.
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Microsoft's "Silverlight" browser-plugin is available for recent Windows and recent Macintosh systems. Novell's "Moonlight" browser-plugin is now in beta, for the earlier SL1.0 version of XAML files.
Rephrased, you can't actually install "Silverlight" on Linux, right...?
jd/adobe
Microsoft's "Silverlight" browser-plugin is available for recent Windows and recent Macintosh systems. Novell's "Moonlight" browser-plugin is now in beta, for the earlier SL1.0 version of XAML files.
Rephrased, you can't actually install "Silverlight" on Linux, right...?
jd/adobe
At least this time John didn't mention his recent Silverlight book ;-)
John D ... correct, at this time Silverlight 2 is not installable on Linux
Thanks, and not to beat a dead horse, but it's not just SL2 which cannot be installed on Linux, because there's no version at all of "Silverlight on Linux", right?
Moonlight's a third-party clone of Microsoft's Silverlight plugins, with support from Microsoft including codec subsidization, but Moonlight is not Silverlight, and there's no Silverlight for Linux. Reason I'm pressing is because there's confusion out there about cross-platform, and the headline as-is could lead unwary readers astray.
(Sorry for the dupe comment above, by the way... got a submission error, and it didn't show on refresh.)
tx, jd/adobe
John D ... correct, Moonlight is a version of Silverlight (not SL itself) for Linux. Silverlight itself will not install on it at this time.
Unfortunetly, MS will just bring out SL3, thus making the project mute.
Ohh, and as commenting on the linked article is broken, I'll post it here instead:
Umm, I clicked the video to start it playing, and it just redirects to the same old sad 'you can't use Silverlight' page.
Can't you stick it up in something the rest of the world stands a chance of understanding, like a YouTube hosted Flash video or something ?
OpenSuSE 10.3, Konqueror. FireFox faired a bit better, actually getting a redirect, but I'm not installing RandomBetaSoftware just to watch a video, sorry.