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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 17:45 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft "Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen."
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ugh bloat, embedded systems.
by bnolsen on Tue 14th Aug 2007 18:26 UTC
bnolsen
Member since:
2006-01-06

Running a mono runtime virtual machine to be able to run silverlight stuff.

This will defintely put a hurt on an embedded system's ability to run silverlight.

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RE: ugh bloat, embedded systems.
by Hiev on Tue 14th Aug 2007 18:50 in reply to "ugh bloat, embedded systems."
Hiev Member since:
2005-09-27

mmmmm nope, Mono runs fine already in embedded
systems w/o problems, did I mention Cairo and GStreamer does it too?

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RE: ugh bloat, embedded systems.
by hyriand on Tue 14th Aug 2007 20:15 in reply to "ugh bloat, embedded systems."
hyriand Member since:
2006-04-03

The thing is, Silverlight is based around the .NET framework. So you need a .NET VM to implement Silverlight.

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RE: ugh bloat, embedded systems.
by jessta on Tue 14th Aug 2007 23:20 in reply to "ugh bloat, embedded systems."
jessta Member since:
2005-08-17

Running a mono runtime virtual machine to be able to run silverlight stuff.

This will defintely put a hurt on an embedded system's ability to run silverlight.


as apposed to an embedded system's ability to run a hack web application(html,css,javascript) in a web browser?

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Lobotomik Member since:
2006-01-03

Hey, that's true!

Something like Mozilla may quite possibly use up as many resources or more than Moonlight, and it won't give you the locally integrated application feeling you can get with Silverlight.

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Lobotomik Member since:
2006-01-03

Unlike what? Flash and Java also need their own VM. And Silverlight is a subset of .NET, so it will be less memory greedy. And Moonlight is largely written in c++, so performance should be quite good even in low-power systems.

Now, being in bed with Microsoft gives a very uneasy feeling... But in this arena, they seem to be a much better bed partner than Adobe.

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