Re: moonlight not so easy to obtain/install

[The Lost Packet <jmthelostpacket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terry Porter wrote:
> Homer wrote:
>
> > Verily I say unto thee, that Terry Porter spake thusly:
> >
> > > This may be the reason Moonlight does not exist as a *released*
> > > Ebuild package for Gentoo, as Gentoo builds everything from source.
> > And also why it can never be distributed by any distro except Novell's,
> > since one must be a direct "downstream recipient" of that software from
> > Novell:
> >
> > http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/covenant_silverlight.html
> >
> > Therefore this is not Free Software, since it lacks at least one of the
> > necessary Four Freedoms (the right to distribute).
> <doh!> of course. Sorry, I read your outstanding install attempt doco and
> promptly forgot!
>
> > Although it is rather curious to note, that someone by the name of Jo
> > Shields seems to be attempting to poison Debian with Moonlight:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501190
> >
> > Quite how he intends to succeed in this ambition, I'm not entirely sure,
> > given the above covenant. A more important question, though, is "why"?
> I can think of one possible reason .
I can't get it installed in Fedora 10-ppc either. SELinux screams blue 
bloody murder about the fact that it isn't signed and flat refuses to 
install it. Same with Flash 10. Only way around it I can think of (and 
will be trying it later cos right now I can't be arsed) is to disable 
the SELinux modules temporarily (which defeats the object of a hardened 
kernel...) so the Moonlight and Flash plugins might install. Whether 
they'll then run when the kernel modules are reactivated, is an entirely 
different set of problems.
Aside: Fedora 10-ppc looks fargin' nice but the default active SELinux 
kernel modules slow the system to a crawl.