Novell, in partnership with Microsoft, announced the final version of Moonlight 1.0. We had talked several times, but remember that this project had the ambition to create a free implementation of Silverlight 1.0. Admittedly, the latter is now in version 2.0 for a while, but the development of Moonlight undergoes necessarily against time due to adaptation.
It's Miguel de Icaza, the project manager, who made the announcement on his blog. Moonlight 1.0 includes the full possibilities of Silverlight 1.0. There is a graphic pipeline, infrastructure for audio and video, and a JavaScript bridge. The script execution is currently in the engine of the browser, but version 2.0, as for Silverlight, will use the runtime engine to own. NET framework.
Di Icaza believes that Moonlight 2.0 is expected to allow execution of code from 20 to 300 times faster when using a strongly-typed language like C or Boo. Meanwhile, Moonlight 1.0 is available for download for all of the Unix-like systems using X11, 32-bit as 64 bit.
Any adventure Moonlight has its roots in the Mono project is also a free implementation, but this time the. NET framework from Microsoft. Initially a brick software closed, it opens when Microsoft is standardizing the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) by the ECMA. The specifications of what became the standard ECMA-335 are freely accessible and leads to Novell Mono, still under development (currently in version 2.2).
Downloading Moonlight 1.0 will be simple if it is present in the deposits of the Linux distribution you use. However, a general method can be found on the official site where we learn that the final version supports Microsoft Media Pack, facilitated the installation of codecs and includes several fixes problems. Recall that very recently, the Silverlight technology which was used to broadcast the inauguration of Barrack Obama on the Internet.
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