Capelle aan den IJssel, 11 februari 2009 - Het Mono(R) Project, een door Novell ondersteund Open Source-initiatief, heeft vandaag de beschikbaarheid aangekondigd van Moonlight(TM) 1.0. Moonlight is het eerste en enige open source-project dat Linux-gebruikers toegang geeft tot Microsoft* Silverlight* -content en onderstreept Novells streven om van Linux een eersteklas platform voor multimedia en Rich Internet Applications te maken. Moonlight voorziet in het platform dat Linux-gebruikers nodig hebben om Silverlight 1.0- en Windows* Media-content te kunnen gebruiken. In combinatie met Banshee(TM), een door Novell ondersteund project voor het ontwikkelen van een open source mediaspeler, maakt Moonlight deel uit van een complete multimediaoplossing op Linux.
“Microsoft Silverlight is de meest uitgebreide en krachtige oplossing voor de creatie en distributie van Rich Internet Applications en mediabelevingen, en wordt door honderdduizenden ontwikkelaars over de hele wereld gebruikt”, aldus Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president van de .NET Developer Division bij Microsoft Corp. “We hebben samengewerkt met het Moonlight-team en Novell om interoperabiliteit tussen Windows- en Linux-platforms mogelijk te maken en de interactieve Web- en videobelevingen van hoge kwaliteit beschikbaar te maken voor de Linux-community.”
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Moonlight Shines on the Linux Desktop
Novell announces first open source implementation of Microsoft SilverlightWALTHAM, MASS. - Feb. 11, 2009– The Mono® Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, today announced the availability of MoonlightTM 1.0. The first and only open source project that provides Linux* users access to Microsoft* Silverlight* content, Moonlight demonstrates Novell's commitment to making Linux a first-class platform for multimedia and Rich Internet Applications. Moonlight provides the platform Linux users need to use Silverlight 1.0 and Windows* Media content. In combination with BansheeTM, a Novell-sponsored project to produce an open source media player, Moonlight is part of a complete multimedia solution on Linux.
“Microsoft Silverlight offers the most comprehensive and powerful solution for the creation and delivery of rich internet applications and media experiences, and is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide,” said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft Corp. “We have worked with the Moonlight team and Novell to enable interoperability between Windows and Linux platforms and extend the high-quality interactive Web and video experience for the benefit of the Linux community.”
Available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise, Fedora*, Red Hat*, and Ubuntu*, this release is in part a result of the existing technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell that extends interoperability between Windows and Linux. Windows Media Video (.wmv), Windows Media Audio (.wma) and MP3 files are supported through the Microsoft Media Pack, a Microsoft-sponsored set of media codecs that brings optimized and licensed decoders to every Linux user using Moonlight. Additionally, it allows developers to write Rich Internet Applications for multiple platforms.
Moonlight has already proven useful to tens of thousands of Linux users. A pre-release of Moonlight was delivered on January 19, 2009 to allow Linux users to stream Barack Obama's Inauguration. More than 20,000 Linux users downloaded Moonlight to watch the Silverlight broadcast.
“Moonlight brings the benefits of Silverlight's popular multimedia content to Linux viewers,” said Miguel de Icaza, Mono project founder and Developer Platform vice president at Novell. “This first release delivers on the goal of breaking down barriers to multimedia content and creating parity in the user's viewing experience regardless of whether the user is on Windows or Linux.”
The Moonlight 1.0 release is part of a technical collaboration announced by Novell and Microsoft in September of 2007. Microsoft has provided access to its test suites for Silverlight, and a Media Pack for Linux users that includes licensed media codecs for video and audio.
For more information on Moonlight, visit go-mono.com/moonlight. To learn more about open source projects that Novell sponsors and contributes to, visit
www.novell.com/linux/opensource.
About the Mono ProjectThe Mono Project is an open source initiative sponsored by Novell to develop a UNIX* version of the Microsoft .NET development framework. Hosted at
www.mono-project.com, the Mono project provides all the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris*, Mac* OS X*, Windows and Unix. Mono has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.
About NovellNovell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit
www.novell.com.
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Novell, Mono, openSUSE and SUSE are registered trademarks and Banshee and Moonlight are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.