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10 replies. Latest Post by sandeep.extreme on August 25, 2009.
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Kragnerac
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0 points
1 Posts
04-30-2007 10:28 PM |
Hello, are there any plans for Microsoft to port Silverlight to the Linux platform? I have Linux on my other hard drive, and it would be really great to have Silverlight on Linux.
CiB
2 points
05-01-2007 6:39 AM |
I can't see why they not should support Linux distros, when they say that "Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform".
bryant
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9447 points
1,558 Posts
05-01-2007 4:54 PM |
The last answer I heard on this was "if there is demand we will build it". Or something like that. So I'm assuming if Silverlight is successfull (which is seems to be so far) then it will be extended to other platforms.
lorenzosjb
4 points
5 Posts
05-02-2007 6:06 PM |
Microsoft must begin to create a version for Linux, because Adobe already has a linux player.
fongsaiyuk
05-04-2007 9:57 AM |
Don't forget about FreeBSD! We're always being overlooked. But at the least, a Linux player would be nice. At least we could run it as a second-class app on FreeBSD using linux binary compatibility.
Adobe is porting Flash Player 9 to Solaris now too, FWIW.
senfo
05-04-2007 10:48 AM |
+1 on the Linux support. I have a large number of users that run Linux and I really couldn't afford to ignore them.
cime63
6 points
05-04-2007 11:53 AM |
I don't think MS will support for Linux.
BUt I like LInux.
taytay
2 Posts
05-04-2007 12:43 PM |
There do indeed seem to be plans to port it to Linux. Miguel de Icaza, the head of Mono, has already announced plans to do so:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/03/2033219.shtml
burito
8 points
6 Posts
01-24-2008 12:03 AM |
As cool as silverlight is, I need a open sourced version so I can plug Silverlight support into my projects. I simply can't use closed web technology without alienating too many clients.
tejasvi....
136 points
30 Posts
01-24-2008 10:52 AM |
Looks like .NET (and its nodes) implementation on linux is left to Mono Team.
Silverlight implementation on Linux is also executed under mono, which is called "Moonlight"you can find it at http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightI feel its a clever move by Microsoft.
sandeep....
12 points
10 Posts
08-25-2009 2:46 AM |
There is moonlight but it is lot more buggy...