Linux Silverlight to arrive by year end

THE MONO open source project has promised that it will have a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year.

Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono said that Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET will be out soon.

While SpokesVoles have been happy to tout the ability of Silverlight applications to run on Internet Exploder, Firebadger and Safari browsers and wax lyrical about its future uses on mobile devices, they have been quiet when ever you mention Linux to them.

But, according to de Icaza, the port his team are building will allow someone to use .Net languages to create Web applications that run on any Linux device or other platforms that Mono supports.

For those who came in late, Mono is an open source implementation of portions of Microsoft's .Net Framework for building software that works on different machines.

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