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Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Novell has unveiled some of the fruits of its technical collaboration with Microsoft in the form of Moonlight 1.0, a Firefox plug-in which will allow Linux users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Officially created by the Mono project, it is available for all Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files."
'[fake-coughing] Moonlight... so deadly... Choking... [laughs] Kidding! When I said "Firefox plug-in," the deadly was in massive sarcasm quotes. I could take a bath in this stuff, put it on cereal, rub it right into my eyes, honestly, it's not deadly at all. To me. You, on the other hand, are going to find its deadliness a lot less funny.
OK I installed this. Now what? Any sites use this?
The one word I was thinking of was "Meh."
Now to spend the next few minutes trying to work out whether that actually counts as a word...
From TFA:
Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files.
Yes, I can just see the lines of linux users just queuing up in anxious trepidation waiting to be able to use Windows Media Video and Audio files on their beloved linux systems...
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
Clearly, you've never read a W3C standard. No-one likes them.
How we know is more important than what we know.
As it should (cost you karma). May your next life be spent working at a Windows ME help desk support center. (j/k, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.)
And all you DRM fetish purists
"Ohhh, encrypt me stronger baby. More Secure, more secure! That's it! Ohhhhh..." ?
The premature ejaculators break it in days.
Dominatrix: "No, It's just a game we're supposed to play! Now gimme 50 bucks."
User: "What? That's it? It didn't even work last time!"
Don't get me started. IE8 is a sore point for me. You WON'T appreciate what you hear. (Or maybe you will. But it won't be the most pleasant conversation.)
Well, if it's something to the effect that though for years, you've absolutely hated Internet Explorer 6's limitations and the fact that Microsoft all but abandoned its development, and during those years, while you put up with all its idiosyncracies you accumulated a metric ton of contempt for the company whose half-life might -- if all the issues were addressed today -- only have you wishing painful chronic illnesses on the IE product development team in 5 years, and that despite all that, you allowed yourself a glimmer of hope when you heard the Microsoft folks talking about how IE 8 would support web standards, only to discover that they're basically still planning on being 4-5 years behind everybody else while dumping a lot of effort into silverlight, but you weren't really surprised because honestly, if they had either the skill or will to keep up, they could have done it without breaking a sweat back when IE6 was actually briefly in the lead, and so your contempt, rather than diminishing, is actually pretty much cemented on a monotonically increasing curve which will eventually cause the cretins involved in IE's product development team to suffer debilitating effects proportional their proximity to you.... then by all means, do go on.
Tweet, tweet.
yeah, that Inauguration thing was so thinly covered by so few sites, people without Silverlight were really left out in the cold for that one
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Quite simply getting access to some of the finest German shizer films on the web!
What? you'd claiming that the internet is used for more than just fulfilling the fetish desires of lonely men in their basement?! heresy! heresy I say!
I would suggest the Openstreetmap Silverlight renderer, but it exposes some bugs in Moonlight and the developer is still working with the Moonlight developers to get it running.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com