My school system uses Silverlight. Well, that's not available (atleast it won't work properly) for Linux. I did some research and I found a website called "go-mono.com". So apparently Moonlight is the Silverlight for Linux.
When I head over to the downloadpage, there are versions for windows, osx, solaris, opensuse and other. ElementaryOS isn't there. When I click on other ElementaryOS still doesn't show up, but Ubuntu does.
ElementaryOS is based off of Ubuntu I believe (is that a correct sentence? English isn't my native language, so I would really appreciate it if you correct my mistakes, thanks).
My question is, will Moonlight work for ElementaryOS if I download and install the Ubuntu version?
yes. ElementaryOS is a ubuntu (10.10) based distribution so it will install in the same way. i have had a quick look and its too bad there's not a .deb for this ( as i am lazy ). On top of this the Mono project does not provide binary downloads for Moonlight; however, packages for most Linux distributions can be found online, either in official distro package repositories, or provided by popular third-party repositories. i.e in Synaptic from the badgerports repository any more info contact the Debian Mono team as they maintain Moonlight and Mono on Ubuntu, their email is [email protected][email protected] their is also alot of help on their irc channel
Let's see if I can explain this in a way that anyone can understand. A .deb is a file like a .exe is for Windows. Just a program that will run on your computer.
As for the specific download you will need, it will be under Ubuntu.