Mono is an open source software project which provides .Net-compatible libraries, tools, and runtimes for Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris. They have recently started work on building a Mono-compatible version of Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) under a project named Moonlight. The project page gives a very good overview of the various technologies involved.
Also, there is a now a Usenet group discussing the current work on porting IronPython/DLR to Mono, and they seem to be making good progress.
At the moment, neither Silverlight nor the DLR work on Linux – but that is unlikely to remain the case for very much longer.
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