Novell, in cooperation with Microsoft, has developed an open source version of Silverlight, called Moonlight, that is now available for Linux in version 2.

About Silverlight - it is a web browser plug-in developed by Microsoft that provides support for a wide range of multimedia functions, similar to Adobe Flash.

Version 3 of Silverlight has already been released several months ago. However, Moonlight 2 is based on Silverlight version 2, but includes some of the new features of version 3.

The open source licensing of
Moonlight
allows it to be included in Ubuntu and other
Linux distributions