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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."
Will it run Linux? on wait.... I'm I getting Frosty Pisst?
just wonder why there are so many anonymous cowards in this world....
You are a fucking retard.
Part of the Mono project but is it open source and free software? Because if it is not, then it is garbage. Plain and simple. Garbage. All software that is not open source and free software under an OSI approved license is garbage. Trash. Rubbish. ALL such software. But if it is open source and free software, then it r00lz. Right on baby.
Speaking of poison, any word if this will handle the silverlight DRM? I'd like to watch movies from netflix, so frankly I'm hoping it does. ( And all you DRM fetish purists can just tighten your chastity belts another notch. ooh the temptation. Hey just tell yourself it's okay cause you're doing it on linux--take that Borg!)
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
we don't want it!
Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
They're back!
FINALLY!
For at least a week we've had to andure a Slashdot that hasn't been Australia-focused, but at last the agony ends!
Thank God that kdawson has returned and brought with him his precious policy of promoting Australia in any and every way possible.
While he was absent, fuckers like timothy were promoting their OWN pet causes instead of the One True Cause: AUSTRALIA!
YEEEESSSSS!!!
Soon ALL Americans will know just how FUCKING FANTASTICALLY AMAZING AUSSIE IS and will respect and admire us!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!
*yawn*
I stand by Vista being faster than expee. I also find it more intuitive.
As for the licensing - Here's the MS license for Silverlight: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=EB83ED4C-AC85-4DE9-8395-285628EE2254&displaylang=en
Moonlight is OSS - http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight#Licensing
Any further questions?
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Somebody has to say "the emperor has no clothes!" You could, but you don't dare even enough to log in to criticize someone who sings out that "the emperor has no clothes."
Help stamp out iliturcy.
yet again open sores is just ripping off everyone else in their eternal quest for validity. at the same time i can't help but hear the echoes from the open sores peanut gallery of 'where's the innovation?'
come on fanbois, is this the best you can do?