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Hands on: Moonlight 2 brings Silverlight 2, bits of 3, to Linux

Novell announced this week the official release of Moonlight 2, a new version of the company’s open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application framework. Moonlight 2 is compatible with content that is designed for Silverlight 2, but it also includes support for a number of features from Silverlight 3.

Launched in 2007 by Novell’s Mono team, the Moonlight project is developing a Firefox plugin for Linux that can render Silverlight media. Microsoft has endorsed the effort and supports it by supplying licensed codecs and test cases to help ensure that Moonlight properly conforms with the Silverlight specifications. The plugin is distributed as open source, except for the proprietary codecs which are obtained automatically by the plugin.

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Test, package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in

Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows development environment. The new tools could potentially help boost the availability of third-party software for Linux.

Novell’s Mono project, an open source implementation of the .NET runtime, makes it possible to run quite a bit of .NET software on the Linux platform. It opens up the door for .NET shops to expand their audience by making their programs available for deployment on Linux, but the additional effort involved in testing and packaging is an impediment in some cases. Novell’s new Mono Tools for Visual Studio (MonoVS) add-in will help to lower the barriers and simplify the process.

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Hadoop Clusters Get A Monitoring Client With Cloudera Desktop

Cloudera has seen some pretty amazing growth for a year-old startup. Backed by an impressive list of investors and advisors and run by a team of experienced technology veterans, Cloudera commercially distributes and services Hadoop. It’s similar in theory to Red Hat’s distribution of Linux. At tomorrow’s Hadoop World: NYC, Cloudera is announcing “Cloudera Desktop” a unified graphical user interface for Hadoop applications that includes tools for job and cluster management. This is significant because Cloudera is transitioning from providing a service to distributing an actual software.

Hadoop is a Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure which is fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop supports distributed applications running on large clusters of commodity computers processing enormous amounts of data. Cloudera helps distribute Hadoop, and provides services around the technology. Cloudera’s newest Desktop software lets developers, analysts and administrators submit jobs, to monitor cluster health and to browse the data stored on a Hadoop cluster. Basically, helps business teams manage and monitor applications that store data using Hadoop.

Cloudera Desktop runs inside a Web browser, and works on Windows, Macintosh and Linux systems. Applications within Desktop include a file browser, for copying and browsing the data files stored on a cluster; a job designer, for creating, running and saving jobs for later reuse or customization; the job browser, for keeping track of job status and progress; and a cluster health dashboard, for monitoring the health of a Hadoop cluster and alerting operators in case of problems.

Via Cloudera, Hadoop is currently used by most of the giants in the space including Google, Yahoo, Facebook (we wrote about Facebook’s use of Cloudera here), Amazon, AOL, Baidu and more. To date, Cloudera has raised $11 million in funding from Accel Partners and Greylock Partners.

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