Describe Moonlight and list the goals of using Moonlight

Moonlight is a technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell. It is an open source implementation of Silverlight that is principally used for Linux, Unix/11 and other operating systems with similar baselines. It provides users with the access of Microsoft’s greatest test suits that are made available for Silverlight along the with the distribution benefits of various Media Packs by Linux users. The goals of using Moonlight include the following:

• Moonlight helps in running Silverlight applications for systems with Linux operating system
• In order to provide Linux SDK for building Silverlight applications, Moonlight is preferred
• For reusing Silverlight engines for desktop applications, Moonlight is used