I was blogging about it the other day, and (for a change) it took longer than I first announced, but here it is!
I just committed my moonlight port (based on moonlight 1.0 release). Now bear in mind this is still a work in progress. I’ve experienced issues with Firefox 3 so support is disabled for now. Also, moonlight requires pulseaudio for sound support which I haven’t tried yet, so the port doesn’t support it. If you happen to have pulseaudio installed, I’d say moonlight will detect it and hopefully it will just work. I’m interested if you have feedback about this.
If you want to start playing around with it, go to http://www.silverlight.net/.
The title may be a bit too exciting, but that’s how you catch people’s attention.
Anyway, yesterday was one of these days where I mumble about an app that Linux guys have and we don’t. This time it was Moonlight. I looked at it a few months ago and I couldn’t get it to work after a few minutes so I just forgot about it. I mean, how often had I visited a website that required Silverlight… Never. Since then… well not so often, I think it happened once actually, to see a trailer for a PS3 game.
If you’re a Mono-enthusiast, you probably rejoyced a few days ago when I merged Mono 2.0.1 (thank the guys at #bsd-sharp, I’m just the messenger). Mono and c-sharp ports are moving faster these days. I know there are quite a few new ports that will enter the CVS repository quite soon (including gnome-do).
Back to Moonlight. This time I decided I would spend more time on it, because of that reason I gave in the first paragraph. There’s been a lot of buzz around it because of the Obama Inauguration. Also Moonlight 1.0 was released a couple days ago. After a couple of hours, I got something working. The port isn’t ready for the public yet, cause there’s still some polishing left to do, but I’ve uploaded a xpi installer for people who want to try it. Here it is (also here, or here, or there). I hope to finish the port and have it in CVS by monday.
Thanks to the work of the bsd-sharp team, mono was updated to 2.0.1 this morning. Get it while it’s hot!
Apparently I missed the release last week, but it happened finally. I’ll send-pr the update for the port later.
If you encounter any issue, would like a new theme or plugin, leave a comment or drop me an email.
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