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Novell Updates Moonlight for Siliverlight 4

Posted by red5 on · 10 comments
codeguru.com; By Sean Kerner
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Want to run any type of Microsoft Silverlight 3 media on your Linux computer? Now you can. Novell is out this week with Moonlight 4 Preview, which is an open source implementation of the Silverlight media framework. Moonlight 4 Preview is the first major release of the open source media framework since Moonlight 2 was released in 2009. "We're finished with 3.0 APIs for Silverlight 3 and the preview is also showcasing half the APIs we need for Silverlight 4.0," Miguel de Icaza, Novell Moonlight's project leader, told InternetNews.com. "We probably have the most important 4.0 APIs, so people should be able to use it for day-to-day use."

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Because if it doesn't it isn't even worth looking at IMO. Only major service I come relatively close to that is dumb enough to use silver light.

~Jeff
I keep an XP install in VB for exactly that reason.
@ Bob

+1

And I'm even considering closing my account. It's bad enough that there is no current Linux support...I've seen most of the decent movies that are stream-able...the rest are Hulu-type junk.
Um yeah, that's why I kicked netflix to the curb and signed up for hulu plus, in appreciation for their unabashed support of linux users.

Edit: I see where Roku just announced that the entire criterion movie collection will be streamable on hulu plus. I gather that means I can watch it on my linux desktop machines as well, since hulu is hulu.
@helios I can't believe you would support them!! :P

I have neglected signing up for an account for just this reason. Plus, well I don't keep any Windows in my house ;)

~Jeff
> Plus, well I don't keep any Windows in my house ;)

Doesn't it get drafty? :)
Diane likes some of the stuff on there and as we all know...if mama is unhappy, everyone is unhappy...if Daddy is unhappy, who cares?

I run XP on VB in the bedroom just to watch Hulu and Netflix before going to sleep...and fastpasstv.com if the servers are running decent that night.
@jdixon --

Might just get really stuffy.
> Might just get really stuffy.

Never would anyone suggest that anyone around here is stuffy.
I watch Netflix on the Wii. I just find it more handy than the PC.

However, I find it bizarre that there is still no official Linux client, especially since I believe there is a Linux-based media box that does deliver it (name alludes me at the moment....)

Ah, yes Roku

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