Moonlight 2 arrives and falls flat on its face
The other day, Novell's Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that begs the question: "What Silverlight content?"
Moonlight 2 beta sounds great. Novell states that it's the equivalent of Microsoft Silverlight 2 and that it "gives users a platform to view and use Silverlight and Windows Media content on Linux."
Specifically, Novell claims that "The Moonlight 2 beta offers Linux users improved functionality compared to Moonlight 1, including support for adaptive streaming of video and audio playback. This feature allows for better streaming of multimedia content based on the quality of the user's connections."
Better? I don't think so. It failed for me much more often than not.
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arstechnica.com: We first looked at Moonlight 2.0 when an experimental preview release was made available in May. It was highly promising but still needed additional improvements to make it a viable Silverlight runtime for average Linux users. The new beta release is a major step forward and delivers much stronger compatibility with Silverlight 2.0. It is considered feature-complete and can run many popular Silverlight demos.
The significant progress that has been made this year on compatibility validates the Moonlight project's goals and demonstrates that it has the potential to achieve parity with Microsoft's implementation. The beta is still far from flawless, however, and generally lacks stability. I experienced a number of browser crashes during my tests and also encountered several Silverlight demos that raised exceptions and displayed error messages. Despite these issues, the demos that worked properly were very impressive and delivered reasonably good rendering and adequate performance.
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