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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."

3 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Netflix runs on linux. by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every BluRay player that has netflix on it is running Linux. so they are lying when they say they do not support it. My Panasonic BluRay states it runs linux in the manual and the License information, and there is Netflix right there on it.

    Netflix does not support a generic distro because they dont want to bother supporting it.

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    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  2. Netflix Android native app works fine in linux by Cito · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Install the Android x86 libs then download Netflix native android Linux app from google play and it runs on any Linux flavor smoother and simpler than pipe light wine hacks

  3. Re:Don't forget FreeBSD by CrankyFool · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work at Netflix, on the Cloud and Platform Engineering side, responsible for doing some stuff in the cloud. We use both Linux and FreeBSD -- Our cloud infrastructure runs on Linux, so all the API calls, license calls, logging in etc is hitting Linux servers. And once you start downloading a movie, you're downloading it from one of our caches, which runs on FreeBSD.