# Moonlight (Silverlight plug-in for Linux) Info

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moonlight-silverlight-plug-in-for-linux-info/230014>\
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**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moonlight-silverlight-plug-in-for-linux-info/230014 "2007-06-22T00:55:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/moonlight-silverlight-plug-in-for-linux-info/230014/1 "2007-06-22T00:55:36Z")

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Miguel De Icaza of Mono fame (and more) posts about the progress they’ve made creating a plug-in for Linux that plays Silverlight content: [**[U]http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html[/U]**](http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html)

> The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight.

Needless to say, we believe that Silverlight is a fantastic development platform, and its .NET-based version is incredibly interesting and as Linux/Unix users we wanted to both get access to content produced with it and to use Linux as our developer platform for Silverlight-powered web sites.

Am now on a flight to Paris to show the results of 20 days of intense work that the team has implemented. It is hard to contribute to the effort sitting on a plane when the tree is changing every 10-20 minutes.

There is technically still some time left to improve what we can show.

🙂