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Run Netflix On OpenSUSE

Posted by timothy on from the pulling-pixels dept.

sfcrazy writes "Ironically while Netflix's infrastructure runs on Linux and Open Source technologies, the service doesn't support Linux, the platform. Netflix is available for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome OS but not for desktop Linux. One of the reasons could be that Netflix still uses Microsoft's Silverlight which is not supported on Linux. However Linux users have managed to get it to work on their distros. Now openSUSE users can also run Netflix using Pipelight."

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  1. Works like a charm on Ubuntu two by jonnyj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instructions are here: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html

    I've been using it for several week with Netflix on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10. It also works with Eurosport Player.

    1. Re:Works like a charm on Ubuntu two by DavidClarkeHR · · Score: 3, Informative

      Instructions are here: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html

      I've been using it for several week with Netflix on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10. It also works with Eurosport Player.

      Great. Now get it working on QNX, and my blackberry playbook is useful. In 2011.

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  2. Ironic? by PNutts · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. The word I'm thinking is plagiarism. With the exception of the last sentence the summary was lifted from the ./muktware site with only one word changed.

  3. Slow day? by infinitelink · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dated much? Use of Pipelight to run Netflix on linux distros has been long available, publicized, shows for every search of "run Netflix on Linux", so...why is this here?

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  4. Don't forget FreeBSD by ZorkZero · · Score: 4, Informative

    The OS doing the heavy lifting (serving the actual video, up to 1/3 of the traffic on the net during peak hours) is FreeBSD.

  5. Re:Netflix runs on linux. by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pipelight is a LOT more than a binary blob DRM module. It is an entire instance of Silverlight running in Wine. My laptop hits 100 celcius with the fan at FULL speed watching Netflix. I can do full 3D gaming and it only hits about 70 or 80.