Moonlight

Experience Rich Interactive Web Content on Linux

Moonlight is the open source implementation of Silverlight, Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. Leveraging the Mono development platform, Moonlight represents an exciting opportunity for Linux users and developers everywhere to take advantage of Silverlight for rich media. Microsoft has endorsed Moonlight as the platform for bringing Silverlight support to Linux.

Moonlight is a based on a project started on mono-project.com.

The goals of the Moonlight project are to

• Bring the capabilities of running Silverlight applications on Linux.
• Provide a Linux software development kit that allows developer to build Silverlight applications.
• Reuse the Silverlight engine we have built for desktop applications.

More Information on Moonlight and Silverlight

• FAQs
• The Press Release
• Silverlight site