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Ok, this post already comes a bit late since gentoo has already been released for quite some time. However, since no mention was given on this blog, I felt compelled to write something about it.

Gentoo is a meta-distribution. This means that, trough a complex and yet incredibly easy to use system called portage, you can get source packages + dependencies and compile them, making sure you always have the latest (or most recent stable software, depending on your choice) software available. This is why gentoo 2007.0 is considered to be nothing more than a snapshot of gentoo at a certain point in time. Expect an updated version sometime later this year.
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“Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.”

Will Flash change as we know it, or will Silverlight prevail?
- Too soon to say but I admit that Microsoft did a good job with Silverlight. It’s not only fast(streaming and display) but good looking, sounds promising in every aspect.

You can start by going to the source and give it a try: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/.

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Funny things about SilverLight: how microsoft came up with “silverlight”.