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title: "What is MoonLight?"  
description: "What is MoonLight?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-03-11  
updated: 2020-09-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/392/what-is-moonlight  
category: "silverlight"  
tags: ["silverlight"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is MoonLight?

Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Silverlight,primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based Operating Systems. In September of2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includesaccess to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of aMedia Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for videoand audio.

Moonlight 2 was released December 17, 2009

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Moonlight is an Open Source implementation of Silverlight,primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based Operating Systems. In September of2007, Microsoft and Novell announced a technical collaboration that includesaccess to Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and the distribution of aMedia Pack for Linux users that will contain licensed media codecs for videoand audio.

Moonlight 2 was released December 17, 2009


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