Silverlight on Linux

Miguel de Icaze, a Novell vice president and head of Mono, promises a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year. Mono is an open-source implementation of portions of Microsoft's .Net Framework for building cross-platform applications.

Mono developers are looking forward to benefit from the Dynamic Language Runtime, which Microsoft announced on Monday. The code for the Dynamic Language Runtime, which allows dynamic language programmers to create .Net applications, will be released under a license that allows commercial companies to redistribute and modify the code.

At the Mix '07 conference on Monday, Microsoft talked about the ability to write Silverlight Web applications that run on Internet Explorer, Firefox and the Safari browser on Mac OS. Next up for Silverlight is an edition for mobile devices, including Windows Mobile.