Last night was probably one of the first nights that I shall be using Linux on Drew. If not for the Plants vs. Zombies game I would have used Ubuntu all the way last night. Of course using Ubuntu over at the office is a different story.
Anyway, I was thinking if almost anything there is some sort of other options if not better options that Linux would give me, then there should be something that silverlight offers.
See, I often listen to streaming music or TV over at hayag. However, they offer it using silverlight, a microsoft proprietary software/plug-in. So there, I thought, my hayag evenings is doomed.
While surfing the net this afternoon I had a chance to chat with my Ubuntu guru. Asked him if there was a thing to help me out with silverlight, luckily there is!
And it's named funny too! Moonlight. duh!
Here's some write up I saw on the Mono site:
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight (http://silverlight.net), primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. In September of 2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includes access to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of a Media Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for video and audio.
Now to get it up and running on firefox.
Image courtesy of this site.
