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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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

    1. 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.

  4. Re:I don't see a problem. by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only a post "preview" was available..

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  5. Re:Netflix runs on linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uhm, I run linux on my servers AND it's my primary computer OS. Linux has been my primary desktop for well over 10 years now. We are not a 1% user base and since we actually know a thing or two about computers we demand a proportionately smaller amount of support time. In fact, I'd argue that we as linux users are more often than not providing support to the front line phone personal by pointing them directly to the problem.

    The media industry simply refuses to allow any media play back no a device or OS that isn't completely locked down. THAT is why there is no native linux client.

  6. 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