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Moonlight coming very soon

The all so spoken Moonlight, the Silverlight alternative to Linux users (based on Mono), is almost ready to public release.

For the last three weeks, a decentralized group of Mono developers has been hacking together an implementation of Silverlight for Linux. Project lead Miguel de Icaza chronicles the process on his blog, calling the weeks of 12-hour-plus days “the most intense hacking days that I have ever had.”

Miguel will be presenting a demo for Linux at ReMix07, the traveling Microsoft event landing Thursday in Paris.

The code is currently on a working state (alpha), and if you want to give it a try, follow this steps:

1. Install Mono 1.2.4 for Unix
2. Download and install the olive module
   1. Standard configure; make; make install
3. Install dependencies for module moon from your distro:
   1. Gtk+ 2.0 development package
   2. cairo 1.4.xx development package
   3. ffmpeg from SVN
   4. Mozilla NSPR development package
      1. one of: nspr mozilla-nspr firefox-nspr xulrunner-nspr seamonkey-nspr)
   5. Mozilla NSS development package
      1. one of: nss mozilla-nss firefox-nss xulrunner-nss seamonkey-nss
   6. Mozilla XPCOM
      1. one of: xpcom mozilla-xpcom firefox-xpcom xulrunner-xpcom
   7. Alsa
4. Download and install the moon module from SVN
   1. Standard configure; make; make install

After that, You should be able to run silverlight applications with moonlight on Firefox (Linux).