A new version of the Moonlight open-source technology that puts Silverlight on Linux is now available for developers to test.

Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-platform runtime and development technology for running Web-based multimedia applications.

According to a blog post by Miguel de Icaza, Novell developer platform vice president and founder of the Mono open-source project, the preview of Moonlight 2.0 is not feature-complete and does not pass all the requirements needed to fully implement Silverlight on Linux.

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