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Microsoft Silverlight comes to Linux, First stop: Moblin
Microsoft isn't making a big deal of the Linux portion of today's announcement. Rather, the company is demonstrating that Silverlight plays well with computers using the Intel Atom processor. During an event at the Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco, officials from Microsoft and Intel showed a demo of Silverlight running on Intel Atom powered devices running both Windows 7 and Moblin Linux. Of course, Silverlight has been running perfectly well on Intel Atom powered netbooks running Windows for the past year and a half, so that's no big surprise.
The question is, if Silverlight is going to run on Moblin, does that mean other Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE will be supported in the future?
[via ZDNet]
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Subscribe to commentsBlueBSep 23rd 2009 11:06PM
It's only a matter of time...
LuQmanSep 24th 2009 8:01AM
Linux software isn't compatible on other distributions? There should be some standardization body setup by now. I thought that Linux was supposed to fix the whole 31 flavors of UNIX problem.
VotreSep 24th 2009 7:11AM
"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" (The Linux version.)
It worked for Microsoft before. It will work for them again.
JennSep 24th 2009 9:29AM
Hmm... even if Microsoft only makes it available on the one distribution, couldn't it be ported over to the others as well? .... I mean as long as the licence makes this allowed.
ClaudioSep 24th 2009 11:50AM
I'd like to see how they'll do it on Gentoo Linux. Will they release source code?
JamesSep 26th 2009 7:15AM
Netflix streaming on boxee, hoo-rah
whiskeySep 28th 2009 8:01AM
The question would be if Linux users would be keen on using Silverlight, mainly because there are many that don't even consider Flash because it's not open source.
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