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May 20, 2008

Overall, cross-platform developers can now download the source code for Moonlight, the open source project chartered with building a Silverlight runtime for Linux.

Novell just released the first public source code for interested developers and contributors last week, but also cautioned that the application isn't near beta complete, and that it lacks certain features.

For example, developers need to build audio and video codecs from source code, the company said.

Built on Novell's open source .Net platform called Mono, when Moonlight 1.0 is released, it will support most Linux distributions, along with FireFox 2 and 3, Konqueror and Opera browsers Novell said.

The first release will also support the JavaScript programming model found in Silverlight 1.0 and the Mono team plans to support the .Net programming model for rich Internet apps found in Silverlight 2, which is currently in beta 1 phase.

Initially released in September of 2007, Moonlight was announced in tandem with the Silverlight 1.0 development platform.

Novell' new technology is the result of what the company terms an "informal partnership" with Microsoft. Novell's "Mono development team" has had access to Silverlight test suites and specifications.

For its part, Microsoft said it plans to post the media codecs for open source users soon. No specific date was offered however.

Source: Novell.

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