Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.

"Last year we created a framework to run Silverlight applications as native applications. At the time we called those applications moonlight desklets. The desklets are Silverlight applications that run in standalone mode, with full access to the entire Mono API stack (as opposed to be limite...

"The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight. "

The Mono Team has just finished their first release of Mono, the 100% compatible open-source alternative to Silverlight..... that runs on Linux. More importantly, unlike Mono itself, Moonlight will be "drop-in" ready, complete with compatible UI and animation layers.