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Installing Silverlight on Linux

2009-01-07T14:18:54Z

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.

Comment from John Dowdell on 2009-01-07

2009-01-07T19:18:22Z

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

Comment from John Dowdell on 2009-01-07

2009-01-07T19:20:04Z

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

Comment from Thomas on 2009-01-07

2009-01-07T19:29:55Z

At least this time John didn't mention his recent Silverlight book ;-)

Comment from John Papa on 2009-01-07

2009-01-07T20:21:12Z

John D ... correct, at this time Silverlight 2 is not installable on Linux

Comment from John Dowdell on 2009-01-07

2009-01-07T22:04:37Z

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

Comment from John Papa on 2009-01-07

2009-01-08T04:27:53Z

John D ... correct, Moonlight is a version of Silverlight (not SL itself) for Linux. Silverlight itself will not install on it at this time.

Comment from Tom Chiverton on 2009-01-08

2009-01-08T10:52:46Z

Unfortunetly, MS will just bring out SL3, thus making the project mute.

Comment from Tom Chiverton on 2009-01-08

2009-01-08T10:58:05Z

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.