Moonlight 4 available in beta
Moonlight 4 beta has been released. The open-source implementation of Silverlight now offers hardware acceleration (for the management of video and 3D GPU), or support the H.264 codec.
With this development release, Moonlight incorporates several new features of Silverlight 4, including support for APIs in Silverlight 3 and 4. It also helps build and run applications "outside the browser.
Moonlight 2.0 – SilverLight for Linux
Initialy expected for september 2009, Novell release the second version of Moonlight, an open source adaptation of Silverlight, for Linux.
Although marked as a 2.0 difference between the Moonlight and Silverlight 2.0 is currently in version 3 is not as great as it seems in fact that is fully compatible with version 2 of Silverlight and shipped an API 2.5, which implements from several features of Silverlight 3 as Smooth Streaming, compatibility with audio / video third operation for applications outside the browser.
On his blog, Miguel de Icaza, leader of Moonlight project indicates that this new version of Moonlight is made from 142,000 lines of code C / C + + and 320,000 lines of C #, 125,000 of which are supplied by Microsoft.
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